William Greaves
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1926-10-08 · New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- 2014-08-25
Known for
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) — Self - Director
- Bustin' Loose (1981) — Executive Producer
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ (2005) — Self
- Lost Boundaries (1949) — Arthur 'Art' Cooper
- Sepia Cinderella (1947) — Patron
- Hollywood Black (2024) — Self (archive footage)
- Miracle in Harlem (1948) — Bert Hallam
- Souls of Sin (1949) — Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
- Nationtime: Gary (1972) — Producer
- Trans Canada Summer (1958) — Sound
- The Fight Never Ends (1948)
- Discovering William Greaves (2006) — Self
- The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966) — Narrator
- That's Black Entertainment (1989) — Host/Narrator
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1986) — Narrator/Interviewer
- Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane (1970) — Producer