Lonne Elder III

Lonne Elder III ( born December 26, 1927 in Americus, † June 11, 1996 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American stage actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he and his colleague, Suzanne de Passe, the first two African American ever to be nominated for a screenwriting Oscar. Elder was nominated for the screenplay of The Year without a father and De Passe for Lady Sings the Blues.

Life

Lonne Elder III was born in Americus, Georgia, but grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. He began as a stage actor on Broadway, but saddled shortly thereafter to the letter of various pieces around. With his best-known piece of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, he won a Drama Desk Award for Most Promise Playwright. In addition, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The play about a barber in Harlem and his family was produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969. Elder he was in charge of the drama department. He then studied at Yale filmmaking, never completed a course of study from but.

In 1972 the film was released the year without a father, received an Oscar nomination for the Elder. He also wrote a sequel to the film Sounder, Part 2, which was released in 1976. Elder was known for substances for feminism among African-American women made ​​themselves strong, such as the mini-series A Woman Called Moses Harriet Trubman. His screenplay was awarded the Writers Guild of America Award, the Christopher Award, the America Historical Society Award and the NAACP Image Award. In 1979, he was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

He worked on the script of the Richard Pryor film Once and never again with. Occasionally he also appeared on Broadway yet, so for example, as Bobo in Lorraine Hans Berry's play A Raisin in the Sun.

Filmography

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