Charles Gordone
Charles Gordone ( Birth name: Charles Edward Fleming, born October 12, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, † November 17, 1995 in College Station, Texas ) was an American actor and playwright who the 1970 for his play No Place to be Somebody Pulitzer Prize for drama received and thus was the first African-American playwright who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Life
After school he studied at the Los Angeles State College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. After he then did his military service in the U.S. Air Force, he began to work as a stage actor. During this time, born as Charles Edward Fleming Gordone took the name of his stepfather, William Gordon, but added that an 'e', because there is already a same actors in the Actors Equity was, the stage actors union of New York City. In 1953 he received an Obie Award for his performance in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
The mid-1960s he began his career as a playwright with his debut album A Little More Light Around The Place and wrote in the aftermath numerous plays that had the role and situation of African Americans in the American civilization. He had his greatest success already with his second play No Place to be Somebody, for which he was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for drama and thus was the first African American was awarded this prize. In addition, he received for the Drama Desk Award. In 1971 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 1975 he plays the role of the preacher, Preacher Fox ' in Coonskin by Ralph Bakshi, and in 1987 on the side of Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro to, Spider Simpson ' in Angel Heart by Alan Parker.