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Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
Alice Burton Russell (June 30, 1889 – January 1, 1985) was an African-American actress, [1] producer, and the wife of director Oscar Micheaux. [2] She appeared in several films directed by her husband.
Veiled Aristocrats was Oscar Micheaux's second film adaptation of the 1900 novel The House Behind the Cedars by author Charles W. Chesnutt.In 1927 he produced it as a silent film (no print of that film is known to exist today).
The Symbol of the Unconquered (also known as The Wilderness Trail) is a 1920 silent "race film" drama produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.Premiering only a few years after The Birth of a Nation, the film was advertised for its negative depiction of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow , the revival of the Ku Klux Klan , the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and ...
Pages in category "Films directed by Oscar Micheaux" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
In 1926, The Conjure Woman was adapted by Oscar Micheaux into a film of the same name. [42] In 1927, The House Behind the Cedars was adapted by Oscar Micheaux into a film of the same name. [43] In 2008, Dante James, a student at Duke University, made a film adaptation of The Doll, one of Chesnutt's short stories. [44]
Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), [1] sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor.One of the first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.