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Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival which gained him the interest of Hollywood studios, leading to his American feature debut Watermelon Man, in 1970. Eschewing further overtures from Hollywood, he used the successes he had so far to bankroll his work as an independent filmmaker.
In 1971, he released his best-known work, creating and starring in the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which led to the creation of the blaxploitation genre. although critic Roger Ebert did not consider this example of Van Peebles' work to be an exploitation film. He followed this up with the musical, Don't Play Us Cheap, based on his own stage play, and continued to make films, write novels and stage plays in English and in French through the next several decades; his final films include the French-language film Le Conte du ventre plein (2000) and the absurdist film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008). His son, filmmaker and actor Mario Van Peebles, appeared in several of his works and portrayed him in the 2003 biographical film Baadasssss!.
Como dirección
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
The Real Deal: What It Is
Le Conte du ventre plein
Gang in Blue
Tales of Erotica
Vrooom Vrooom Vroooom
Identity Crisis
976-STUD
Don't Play Us Cheap
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Watermelon Man
La permission
Les cinq cent balles
Sunlight
Three Pick-Up Men for Herrick
Como intérprete
Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Armado. La gran conspiración americana
Peeples
Salty Dog Blues
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door
Redemption Road
Directors on Directing
The Black List: Volume Two
American Swing
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Blackout
Maldita suerte
SMUT
Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities Edition
Unstoppable
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
The Real Deal: What It Is
The Hebrew Hammer
BaadAsssss Cinema
René Vautier, le rebelle
Love Kills
Classified X
Riot
Calma al atardecer
Gang in Blue
El puño de la estrella del norte
Panther
Velocidad terminal