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.
Movie Appearances
The Man Who Built Cambodia
as Self
2017
Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam
1948
The Fight Never Ends
1948
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
as Self
2005
Discovering William Greaves
as Self
2006
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
as Self - Director
1968
Souls of Sin
as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
1949
Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
1949
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
as Narrator
1966
That's Black Entertainment
as Host/Narrator
1989
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
2007
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
as Narrator/Interviewer
1986
Sepia Cinderella
as Patron
1947
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
as Self (archival footage)
2026
