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The Harlemborn William Greaves was Canadarsquos first black filmmaker In 1948 he joined the fabled Actorrsquos Studio and studied alongside the likes of Marlon Brando Anthony Quinn and Shelley Winters He pursued an acting career on the New York stage but unsatisfied with the parts he was being offered in buttondown McCarthyera racist America he relocated to Montreal in 1952 There he joined the National Film Board of Canada and for the next decade or so sharpened his skills as a filmmaker These are his credits as a directorbrbrAlso see a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscawilliamgreavesbiographyWilliam Greaves biographyabra hrefhttpwwwwilliamgreavescom targetblankOfficial websiteabrbrbr
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Putting it Straight (1957, short)
Smoke and Weather (1958, short)
Emergency Ward (1959, short)
Four Relegions (1960, documentary)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968, documentary)
Still a Brother (1968)
The Voice of La Raza (1972, documentary)
The Fighters (1974, documentary)
From These Roots (1974, documentary)
The Deep North (TV-1990)
That’s Black Entertainment (1990)
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001, documentary)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005, documentary)
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