Al Freeman junior

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Al Freeman Jr. (Born March 21, 1934 in San Antonio , Texas as Albert Cornelius Freeman junior ; † August 9, 2012 ) was an American actor and director .

Career

Freeman has appeared in films such as My Sweet Charlie , Finian's Rainbow and Malcolm X and has appeared on television series such as The Bill Cosby Show , Law & Order , Homicide and The Edge of Night .

His most famous role was that of cop Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera called One Life to Live . He played this role from 1972 to 1985 and reappeared there in various roles between 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Television Series. Freeman was the first African American to receive this award.

He appeared occasionally in the controversial series Hot L Baltimore . He shot One Life to Live , becoming the first African American to direct a soap opera.

After One Life to Live , Freeman starred in the film Down in the Delta . On Broadway, he starred in Look to the Lilies , Blues for Mister Charlie and Medea . For his role as Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in the feature film Malcolm X , he won the 1995 NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1979 he portrayed Malcolm X in the series Roots: The Next Generations .

Most recently, he was Professor of Drama at Howard University in Washington, DC

Filmography

Movies

  • 1958: Torpedo go! (Torpedo Run)
  • 1960: This Rebel Breed
  • 1961: Sniper's Ridge
  • 1964: Black Like Me
  • 1964: Operation Pacific (Ensign Powder)
  • 1964: The Troublemaker
  • 1966: For Pete's Sake
  • 1967: Dutchman
  • 1968: The Golden Rainbow (Finian's Rainbow)
  • 1968: The Detective (The Detective)
  • 1969: The castle in the Ardennes (Castle Keep)
  • 1969: The Lost Man (The Lost Man)
  • 1970: My Sweet Charlie (TV)
  • 1971: A Fable
  • 1972: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (TV movie)
  • 1985: Perry Mason Returns (Movie made for TV)
  • 1988: Seven Hours to Judgment
  • 1992: Malcolm X
  • 1993: Boy Meets Girl (TV movie)
  • 1994: Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (TV movie)
  • 1995: Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored
  • 1998: The Summer That Changed Everything (Down in the Delta)

TV Shows

Film director

Awards

  • 1970 Emmy Awards - Nominated for Best Actor in a Film for My Sweet Charlie
  • 1979: Daytime Emmy Awards - Best Actor in a Drama Series for One Life to Live
  • 1979: Emmy Award - nominated for Best Actor in a Miniseries for Roots: The Next Generations
  • 1986: Daytime Emmy Awards - nominated for best actor in a drama series televisieserie for One Life to Live
  • 1987: Daytime Emmy Awards - Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for One Life to Live
  • 1995: Image Awards - Best Supporting Actor for Malcolm X

Screenwriter

  • 1976: Countdown at Kusini (film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tambay A. Obenson: RIP Al Freeman Jr. . indiewire.com. August 10, 2012. Archived from the original on August 12, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 12, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.indiewire.com
personal data
SURNAME Freeman, Al junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freeman, Albert Cornelius junior (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2012