Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1926-10-08
Deathday
2014-08-25
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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: Take One
as Self - Director
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
as Self
Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam
Discovering William Greaves
as Self
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
