Actor info
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Name :
Eldridge Cleaver
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Born :
August 31, 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA (62 years at death)
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Died :
May 1, 1998
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
16 films (1968–2016)
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Also known as :
Eldridge Leroy Cleaver, Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
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Biography
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".
Notable films
- Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974) (2016) as Self
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
- Leaving Cleaver (1999) as Self
- Malcolm X (1972) as Self (archive footage)
- Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (1970) as Self
