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Duane Lionel Jones (April 11, 1937 – July 22, 1988) was an American actor. He was best known for his lead role as Ben in the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead . [1] [2] He was later director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury , and the artistic director of the Richard Allen Center for Culture ...
Duane Jones. Actor: Night of the Living Dead. Cult figure who will forever be remembered as Ben, the resourceful, yet ill-fated hero of George A. Romero's low-budget zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968). Jones was a former English professor who directed at the Maguire Theater at the Old Westbury campus of New York State University, and ...
Aug 31, 2010 · Those plans changed when a 31-year-old African-American actor named Duane Jones competed for the part. “A mutual friend of George’s and mine was a woman by the name of Betty Ellen Haughey ...
Duane Jones. Actor: Night of the Living Dead. Cult figure who will forever be remembered as Ben, the resourceful, yet ill-fated hero of George A. Romero's low-budget zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Remembering Duane Jones: A Boundary-Breaking Black Actor (Web Exclusive) by Matthew Eng. A handsome, reedy Black man swoops into view from under the cover of nightfall, his chiseled profile partially illuminated by the blinding lights of the porch on which a terrified white woman stands.
Feb 2, 2022 · The importance of Duane Jones’ character in ‘Night of the Living Dead’. Calum Russell @Russellisation. Wed 2 February 2022 14:00, UK. Whilst the likes of John Carpenter’s Halloween, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th and Ari Aster’s Hereditary have helped transform horror over its decades of existence, few filmmakers have done ...
Feb 26, 2019 · The Rare Black Lead in Horror: Duane Jones in Night of the Living Dead | TIFF 2019 - YouTube. TIFF Originals. 196K subscribers. Subscribed. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8....
