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Actor: The Shining. Melvin Van Peebles was born on 21 August 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Shining (1997), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) and Don't Play Us Cheap (1972). He was married to Maria Marx.
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He worked as an active filmmaker into the early 2020s. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was ...
Aug 21, 2022 · On what would have been his 90th birthday, Variety ranks 10 films Van Peebles either directed, wrote or starred in. Born in Chicago, Van Peebles earned a B.A. in Literature from Ohio...
Sep 21, 2021 · Melvin "Block" Van Peebles (August 21, 1932 - September 21, 2021) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer. He was most famous for creating the acclaimed film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African American focused films.
Sep 23, 2021 · In many ways, the four Melvin Van Peebles works collected in the Criterion box have little in common: a French drama, a broad comedy, a ragged indie, a raucous musical. Yet every single...
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Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films. Director, writer, composer, actor, and one-man creative revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles jolted American independent cinema to new life with his explosive stylistic energy and unfiltered expression of Black consciousness.
Watermelon Man (1970) R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. 6.7. Rate this. 60 Metascore. Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black. Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin. Votes: 2,804 | Gross: $1.50M. 3. Tales of Erotica (1996)
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