Night of the Living Dead
1968
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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 ...
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.
Night of the Living Dead: Directed by George A. Romero. With Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman. A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
Nov 2, 2018 · via Wikimedia Commons. Actor Duane Jones in a scene from the movie Night of the Living Dead. Fifty years ago, on October 9, 1968, the low-budget horror film, Night of the Living Dead, surprisingly reached mainstream America. It’s the story of ravenous corpses returning to life to prey on society.
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....
Duane L. Jones (February 2, 1936 – July 22, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his role as Ben in the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead. He was director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He was the artistic director of the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art in Manhattan.
