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.
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Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
8 October 1926
Death Day
25 August 2014
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017-08-07Actor
Miracle in Harlem
1948-11-29Actor
The Fight Never Ends
1948-03-06
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005-01-20Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
Discovering William Greaves
2006-12-06Actor
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968-10-28Actor, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Souls of Sin
1949-12-25Actor
Lost Boundaries
1949-07-02Actor
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966-01-01Actor, Director, Producer, Sound, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
That's Black Entertainment
1989-01-01Actor, Director
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007-01-31Actor
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986-01-01Actor, Camera Operator, Director, Cinematography, Producer, Editor, Writer
Sepia Cinderella
1947-07-25Actor
Where Dreams Come True
1979-01-01Director
The Marijuana Affair
1975-07-12Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
1970-10-26Producer
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968-01-02Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Emergency Ward
1959-01-01Director, Editor
Space For Women
1981-07-10Director, Producer, Writer
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984-01-01Producer, Screenplay, Director
Blood and Fire
1958-10-26Editor
The Dikes
1955-01-01Sound
Wealth of a Nation
1964-01-01Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
From These Roots
1974-10-12Director
The Fighters
1974-01-04Editor, Producer, Director
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989-10-24Producer, Director, Writer
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
2001-01-19Editor, Writer, Producer, Director
Smoke and Weather
1958-01-01Editor, Producer, Writer, Director
Nationtime
1972-11-01Writer, Producer, Editor, Director, Cinematography
Voice of La Raza
1971-01-01Editor, Writer, Cinematography, Producer, Director
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
1982-05-31Editor, Producer, Writer, Sound, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Director
High Arctic
1959-01-01Writer, Editor
Bush Doctor
1955-04-01Sound
Trans Canada Summer
1958-01-01Sound, Editor
Four Religions
1960-01-01Editor, Cinematography, Director
In the Company of Men
1969-01-02Director
Islands of the Frozen Sea
1958-01-01Editor
Profile of a Problem Drinker
1957-01-02Editor
Bustin' Loose
1981-05-22Executive Producer
Every Nigger Is a Star
1974-01-01Cinematography
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985-01-01Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970-07-01Producer
Whose Standard English?
1974-01-01Director
Putting It Straight
1957-01-01Director
On Merit
1972-01-01Director
The Best of Black Journal
1988-01-01Director
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976-12-30Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
The Fight
1974-01-01Director
The Deep North
1988-12-21Director, Producer
Black Journal: 9
1969-02-24Director
Black Journal: 18
1969-11-24Director
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026-01-25Director
Black Journal
1968-06-12Executive Producer
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