
William Greaves
Born
1926-10-08
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Died
2014-08-25
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
Self - Director

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Self

Lost Boundaries
Arthur 'Art' Cooper

Sepia Cinderella
Patron

Miracle in Harlem
Bert Hallam

Discovering William Greaves
Self

Souls of Sin
Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee

The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Narrator

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Narrator/Interviewer

The Man Who Built Cambodia
Self

The Fight Never Ends
Movie

That's Black Entertainment
Host/Narrator
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self

Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Self (archival footage)