Name
William Greaves
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1926-10-08
Deathday
2014-08-25 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Known For
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In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen ...
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After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has t...
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A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pai...
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A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. Wh...
- 2017 The Man Who Built Cambodia as Self
- 1948 Miracle in Harlem as Bert Hallam
- 1948 The Fight Never Ends
- 2005 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ as Self
- 2006 Discovering William Greaves as Self
- 1971 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One as Self - Director
- 1949 Souls of Sin as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
- 1949 Lost Boundaries as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
- 1966 The First World Festival of Negro Arts as Narrator
- 1989 That's Black Entertainment as Host/Narrator
- 2007 Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson as Self
- 1986 Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? as Narrator/Interviewer
- 1947 Sepia Cinderella as Patron
- 2026 Once Upon a Time in Harlem as Self (archival footage)
- 2024 Hollywood Black ( 4 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
