Name
Marlon Riggs
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1957-02-03
Deathday
1994-04-05 (37 years old)
Place of Birth
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Biography
Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films that examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
Known For
6.7
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, ce...
5.8
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he d...
7.1
This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice...
6.9
From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have playe...
5.6
A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America....
- 1991 Absolutely Positive as Self
- 1990 Tongues Untied as Self
- 1993 Anthem
- 1995 Black Is… Black Ain’t as Self
- 1996 I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs as Self
- 1995 Positive Men as Self
