Lonne Elder III
Playwright and Actor
Hotel Chelsea...BD Hotels NY, L.L.C., who have since been terminated. Mr. Elder is the son of renowned playwright and screenwriter Lonne Elder III. A few residents are fighting to return the Bards as managers to the Chelsea Hotel and have mounted a... In this article: Hotel Chelsea, Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Valerie Solanas, New York City, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious, Pete Doherty, and Janis Joplin |
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Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
Sounder
...a film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal , and Eric Hooks. It was written by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt. In 2003, ABC 's Wonderful World of Disney aired a new film adaptation,...
In this article: Sounder, Sounder, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Chicken, Bulldog, Dog, Newbery Award, and Disney
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N.Y.P.D.
...Harvey Keitel would work together again on Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Scripted by writers like Lonne Elder, who would later be the first African-American nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar (for 1972's...
In this article: N.Y.P.D., David Susskind, New York City Police Department, Harvey Keitel, Malcolm X, Suicide, Iron Cross, and Lonne Elder
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Suzanne de Passe
...for signing, coaching, and developing Motown's most popular act of the 1970s, The Jackson 5. In 1973, both she and Lonne Elder III became the first African-Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing. She was...
In this article: Suzanne de Passe, Motown Records, Emmy Awards, Academy Award, Essence Magazine, Zane, De Passe Entertainment, Motown 25, and Berry Gordy
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Sounder (film)
...film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal , and Eric Hooks. It was adapted by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sounder by William H. Armstrong and...
In this article: Sounder, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Academy Award, Newbery Medal, Disney, Sounder, and Taj Mahal
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Lonne Elder III
Lonne Elder III (December 26, 1927 - June 11, 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he along with Suzanne de Passe became the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing. Elder was...
In this article: Yale, Suzanne de Passe, Sounder, A Raisin in the Sun, Academy Award, Negro Ensemble Company, Bobo, and Lorraine Hansberry
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A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
...the album does not contain any poetry. "Scenes in the City", however, includes narration performed by Melvin Stewart and written by actor Lonne Elder with assistance from Langston Hughes. The composition "Duke's Choice" re-appears, in...
In this article: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry, Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, The Penguin, Clarence Shaw, Lonne Elder, and Langston Hughes
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New York Times | November 27, 2008
Critic's Choice: New DVDs: Martin Ritt
...that this New York-born director made about the American South. Working from a screenplay by the African-American playwright Lonne Elder III ("Ceremonies in Dark Old Men"), Ritt builds an affecting portrait of a black sharecropper (Paul...
In this article: Martin Ritt, Sounder, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Blu-ray, Richard Burton, James Bond films, Fox Home Entertainment, Oskar Werner, and Paul Winfield
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Holiday Movies: Holiday DVDs
...camp for stealing food to feed his hungry children that invites homilies, sentimentality and false nobility. Working from Lonne Elder III's adaptation, Ritt doesn't force a single moment. The confidence and craft evident in the choice to use...
In this article: Maggie Cheung, Paul Winfield, Samuel Fuller, Chungking Express, White Dog, Magnificent Obsession, Douglas Sirk, Randolph Scott, and Irma Vep
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NPR | October 03, 2008
For Pioneering Black Theater, A Season-Long Salute : NPR
...(right), with actress Rosalind Cash and actor Godfrey Cambridge. Cambridge and Cash starred in the NEC's 1975 TV version of Lonne Elder III's Negro Ensemble Company All Things Considered, October 5, 2008 · This year, New York's Signature...
In this article: Negro Ensemble Company, NEC, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Signature Theatre Company, NPR, A Raisin in the Sun, and Samuel L. Jackson
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Lonne Elder III (December 26 1927 – June 11 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he along with Suzanne De Passe became the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing. Elder was nominated for Sounder, while De Passe was nominated for the film Lady Sings the Blues.
Elder was born in Americus, Georgia but raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He began his career as a Broadway actor but soon found his skills in playwriting. His first and most well known play, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, won him a Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright. The play, which was about a Harlem barber and his family, was produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969, and this encouraged him to study filmmaking at Yale. He did not complete the course in filmmaking at Yale.
He wrote the screenplay for Sounder and received an Academy Award nomination. He later wrote its sequel.
Elder was known for films that promoted the cause of feminism for African American women. His script for the television miniseries A Woman Called Moses is an example of this. His play Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, which was produced for television in 1975, was also influential in depicting the realities of a black family attempting to survive in New York City.
Elder also co-wrote the screenplay for the Richard Pryor comedy Bustin' Loose.
Elder also starred in the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as the character Bobo.
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