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Lonne Elder III, the Glossary

Lonne Elder III (December 26, 1927 – June 11, 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter.^[1]

74 relations: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry, A Raisin in the Sun, A Woman Called Moses, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Actor, African Americans, Americus, Georgia, August Wilson, Billy Dee Williams, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Boyz n the Hood, Bustin' Loose (film), Calvin Lockhart, Camera Three, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Award, Cicely Tyson, Crooklyn, Denzel Washington, Douglas Turner Ward, Drama Desk Award, Edith Oliver, Harriet Tubman, I'll Fly Away (TV series), Ira Aldridge, James Baldwin, Judyann Elder, Keith David, Kevin Hooks, Lady Sings the Blues (film), Langston Hughes, Laurence Fishburne, Lorraine Hansberry, Los Angeles Times, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Ritt, McCloud (TV series), Melinda (film), N.Y.P.D. (TV series), NAACP Image Awards, Negro Digest, Negro Ensemble Company, Orson Welles, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Part 2, Sounder, Paul Winfield, Pauline Kael, ... Expand index (24 more) »
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A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry

A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry is an album by the jazz bassist, composer, and band leader Charles Mingus, released by Bethlehem Records in mid-1959.

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A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959.

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A Woman Called Moses is a 1978 American television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marcy Heidish, about the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who led dozens of other African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Americus, Georgia

Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States.

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August Wilson

August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. Lonne Elder III and August Wilson are 20th-century African-American writers.

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Billy Dee Williams

William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, novelist and painter. Lonne Elder III and Billy Dee Williams are 20th-century African-American writers.

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Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1974, in Oakland, California.

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Boyz n the Hood

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood crime drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut.

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Bustin' Loose (film)

Bustin' Loose is a 1981 American road comedy-drama film starring Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson.

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Calvin Lockhart

Calvin Lockhart (born Bert McClossy Cooper; October 18, 1934March 29, 2007) was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor.

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Camera Three

Camera Three was an American anthology series devoted to the arts.

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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is an American two-act play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway in 1969 at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company.

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Charles S. Dutton

Charles Stanley Dutton (born January 30, 1951) is a retired American actor and director.

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Christopher Award

The Christopher Award (established 1949) is presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, films and television specials that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit".

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Cicely Tyson

Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (December 19, 1924January 28, 2021) was an American actress known for her portrayal of strong African-American women.

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Crooklyn

Crooklyn is a 1994 American semi-autobiographical film produced and directed by Spike Lee, who wrote it with his siblings Joie and Cinqué.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Douglas Turner Ward

Douglas Turner Ward (May 5, 1930February 20, 2021) was an American playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer. Lonne Elder III and Douglas Turner Ward are 20th-century African-American writers.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre.

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Edith Oliver

Edith Oliver (August 9, 1913 – February 23, 1998) was an American theater and film critic who contributed to The New Yorker magazine from 1947 to 1993.

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist.

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I'll Fly Away (TV series)

I'll Fly Away is an American television drama series that aired on NBC from October 7, 1991, to February 5, 1993.

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Ira Aldridge

Ira Frederick Aldridge (July 24, 1807 – August 7, 1867) was an American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portrayal of Shakespearean characters.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. Lonne Elder III and James Baldwin are 20th-century African-American writers and American male dramatists and playwrights.

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Judyann Elder

Judyann Elder is an American actress, director, and writer.

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Keith David

Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor.

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Kevin Hooks

Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable for his roles in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but may be best known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow.

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Lady Sings the Blues (film)

Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. Lonne Elder III and Langston Hughes are American male dramatists and playwrights.

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961, usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) is an American actor. Lonne Elder III and Laurence Fishburne are Male actors from Georgia (U.S. state).

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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. Lonne Elder III and Lorraine Hansberry are 20th-century African-American writers.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre and television.

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McCloud (TV series)

McCloud is an American police drama television series created by Herman Miller, that aired on NBC from September 16, 1970, to April 17, 1977.

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Melinda (film)

Melinda is a 1972 American drama film directed by Hugh A. Robertson and written by Lonne Elder III.

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N.Y.P.D. (TV series)

N.Y.P.D. is a half-hour long American police crime drama set in the context of the New York City Police Department.

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature.

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Negro Digest

The Negro Digest, later renamed Black World, was a magazine for the African-American market.

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Negro Ensemble Company

The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) is a New York City-based theater company and workshop established in 1967 by playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer-actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald S. Krone, with funding from the Ford Foundation.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Outer Critics Circle Awards

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Part 2, Sounder

Part 2, Sounder is a 1976 American drama film directed by William A. Graham.

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Paul Winfield

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American actor.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Robert Hayden

Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. Lonne Elder III and Robert Hayden are 20th-century African-American writers and African-American male writers.

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Rosalind Cash

Rosalind Cash (December 31, 1938October 31, 1995) was an American actress.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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Sounder (film)

Sounder is a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel of the same name by William H. Armstrong.

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Sounder (novel)

Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong, published in 1969.

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Suzanne de Passe

Suzanna Celeste de Passe (born July 19, 1946, 1947 or 1948) is an American businesswoman, television, music and film producer.

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The American Place Theatre

The American Place Theatre was founded in 1963 by Wynn Handman, Sidney Lanier, and Michael Tolan at St.

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The College of New Jersey

The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a public university in Ewing Township, New Jersey.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Toma (TV series)

Toma is an American crime drama television series that ran on ABC from March 21, 1973, to May 10, 1974.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Wagner College

Wagner College is a private liberal arts college in Staten Island, New York City.

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William Howard Armstrong (September 14, 1911 – April 11, 1999) was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonne_Elder_III

Also known as Lonne Elder.

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