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Sep 22, 2021 · AP. Multi-hyphenate talent (director, writer, composer, actor, author) Melvin Van Peebles has died at the age of 89. The news was announced on Wednesday by The Criterion Collection and Janus Films ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles, the pioneering African American auteur behind the 1970s films Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, has died. He was 89. Van Peebles, the father of actor ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the “Blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after, has died. He ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles — Van was originally his middle name — was born Aug. 21, 1932, in Chicago, and went on to earn a B.A. in literature from Ohio Wesleyan University before joining the Air ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles, who died Sept. 21 at 89, was not the inventor of Black cinema, but it’s no exaggeration to say that he smashed open the door to Black cinema as we know it. It’s a door that ...
Aug 21, 2022 · Narrator: Melvin van Peebles. Director: Mark Daniels. Writer(s): Melvin van Peebles. Distributor: CNC, Channel 4 Television, La Sept-Arte. The scene that proves it: “He who has the gold, makes ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles, the Black filmmaker, novelist and playwright, whose audacious, rebellious work had an influence on generations of artists, has died at age 89.
