William Greaves
Known For
Directing
Born
1926-10-08 in New York City, New York, USA
Died
2014-08-25
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.
Most Known For
Sepia Cinderella
as Patron
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
as Self - Director
Souls of Sin
as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
as Narrator
Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
as Self
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
as Self (archival footage)
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
as Narrator/Interviewer
Discovering William Greaves
as Self
The Fight Never Ends
The Man Who Built Cambodia
as Self
That's Black Entertainment
as Host/Narrator