Melvin Van Peebles (1932–2021)
Author of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by David Shankbone, April 25,2008
Works by Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films (The Story of a Three Day Pass/Watermelon Man / Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song… (2021) 9 copies
Aint supposed to die a natural death 7 copies
Watermelon Man 3 copies
The big heart 2 copies
976-Stud 1 copy
Don't Play Us Cheap 1 copy
Vrooom Vroom Vrooom 1 copy
License to Kill / Acts of Contrition / Gang in Blue (Triple Feature Video) (2004) — Director — 1 copy
Vroom, Vroom, Vrooom 1 copy
Associated Works
Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (1999) — Contributor — 64 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Brer Soul
Peebles, Melvin (born) - Birthdate
- 1932-08-21
- Date of death
- 2021-09-21
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Delaware, Ohio, USA
Mexico
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
The Netherlands
Paris, France - Education
- Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A.|literature|1953)
- Occupations
- actor
film director
screenwriter
novelist
playwright
composer (show all 10)
translator
cable car operator
airman (United States Air Force)
financial instruments trader - Relationships
- Van Peebles, Mario (son)
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Statistics
- Works
- 26
- Also by
- 7
- Members
- 139
- Popularity
- #147,351
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 21
- Languages
- 2