Lonne Elder III

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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 were the first two African-Americans to ever be nominated for a screenplay 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 theater actor on Broadway , but shortly afterwards switched to writing various plays. His most famous piece, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men , won a Drama Desk Award for Most Promise Playwright . He was also 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 was the director of the dramaturgy department there. He then studied filmmaking at Yale , but never graduated.

In 1972 the film The Year Without a Father was released , for which Elder received an Oscar nomination. He also wrote a sequel to the film Sounder, Part 2 , which was released in 1976. Elder was known for campaigning for feminism among African American women, such as the miniseries A Woman Called Moses about Harriet Trubman . His script won 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 Film Makers Hall of Fame .

He worked on the script for the Richard Pryor film Once and Never Again . Occasionally, he also appeared on Broadway yet, so for example, as Bobo in Lorraine Berry Hans piece of A Raisin in the Sun .

Filmography

  • 1973: The Year Without a Father (Sounder)
  • 1973: Melinda
  • 1976: Sounder Part 2
  • 1982: Thou Shalt Not Kill
  • 1983: Once and Never Again (Bustin 'Loose)
  • 1989: Runaway

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Myrna Oliver: Lonne Elder III; Award-winning writer. Los Angeles Times , June 14, 1996, accessed January 15, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Elder, Lonne III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American stage actor, playwright, and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Americus
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1996
Place of death los Angeles