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Mario Van Peebles
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Mario Van Peebles is an American and Mexican film and television director and actor. Born in Mexico City in 1957, he is the son of Melvin Van Peebles and the father of Mandela Van Peebles. He is educated at Columbia University and speaks Spanish and English. His professional work began in 1971, focusing on film direction and production.
Van Peebles is associated with notable works including *Panther*, *Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song*, *New Jack City*, and *Carlito's Way*. He is identified as an African American male. His contributions are cataloged in various databases, with his name appearing in author listings and artist records. He is referenced by numerous other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Panther
- Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song
- New Jack City
- Carlito's Way
- Panther
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Mexico City, Mexico
Mario Cain Peebles Marx (born January 15, 1957) is a Mexican-born American director and actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films. He is son of filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mario Van Peebles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Breakdown: 1975 — Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)2025
- Outlaw Posse — Chief2024
- Sharksploitation — Self2024
- Christmas Rescue2023
- Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood — Self2022
- Is That Black Enough for You?!? — Self2022
- Seized — Mzamo2020
- AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis — Self2020
- A Clear Shot — Gomez2020
- The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault — (archive footage)2020
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22,877
- Total plays
- 111,097
Tags
Melvin Van Peebles (born August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright and composer, and the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles. Prior to entering Hollywood, Van Peebles directed the French film Story of a Three Day Pass (La Permission). His first Hollywood film was the 1970 comedy Watermelon Man, written by Herman Raucher. The movie told the story of a casually racist but well meaning white man who suddenly wakes up black and finds h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,562x
- Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
· 2017 · cited 33,799x
- Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath
· 1984 · cited 28,852x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,661x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,677x
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Key facts
- Born
- Mario Cain Van Peebles , ( 1957-01-15 ) January 15, 1957 (age 69) , Mexico City , Mexico
- Alma mater
- Columbia University ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actor director
- Years active
- 1968–present
- Children
- 5, including Mandela Van Peebles
- Father
- Melvin Van Peebles
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mario Cain Van Peebles (born January 15, 1957) is a Mexican-born American actor and director. He is the son of Melvin Van Peebles, whom he played in the 2003 biopic Baadasssss!, which he also co-wrote, produced, and directed. He also starred in Heartbreak Ridge (1986), New Jack City (1991), and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016), the latter two of which he had directed.
Early life and education
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