William Greaves

Biography

William Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American filmmaking. He produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations, one of which he won for his work as executive producer on the African-American news program Black Journal. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

as Self - Director

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

as Self

Lost Boundaries

as Arthur 'Art' Cooper

Miracle in Harlem

as Bert Hallam

Souls of Sin

as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee

The First World Festival of Negro Arts

as Narrator

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

as Narrator/Interviewer

The Man Who Built Cambodia

as Self

The Fight Never Ends

Discovering William Greaves

as Self