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Melvin Van Peebles
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American filmmaker (1932–2021)
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- Works
- 5
Top works
- Confessions of a ex doofus itchy footed mutha
- A bear for the FBI
- SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG
- Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song
- Just an old sweet song
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Film & TV
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. 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 difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco…
Known for
- Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)2024
- Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood — Self2022
- Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking — Self2021
- Armed — Grandpa V.2018
- Peeples — Grandpa Peeples2013
- Salty Dog Blues — Self (Interviewee)2012
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 — Self (voice)2011
- Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door2011
- Redemption Road — Elmo2011
- Directors on Directing — Self2009
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- 111,086
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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
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Melvin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- South Chicago
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Child
- Mario Van Peebles
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Amsterdam
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Official website
- www.melvinvanpeebles.com
- Image
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- Melvin Van Peebles
- date of birth
- 1932-01-01
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Melvin Van Peebles
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- floruit
- 1976-01-01
- date of death
- 2021-09-21
- writing language
- English language
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Original Score
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