Actor info
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Name :
William Greaves
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Born :
October 8, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA (87 years at death)
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Died :
August 25, 2014
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Known for :
Directing
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
14 films (1947–2026)
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Biography
William Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American filmmaking. He produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations, one of which he won for his work as executive producer on the African-American news program Black Journal. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) as Self (archival footage)
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1986) as Narrator/Interviewer
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) as Self - Director
- Miracle in Harlem (1948) as Bert Hallam
- Sepia Cinderella (1947) as Patron
