William Greaves
Born: 1926-10-08 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2014-08-25
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem as Self (archival footage)
2024
- Hollywood Black as Self (archive footage)
2017
- The Man Who Built Cambodia as Self
2007
2006
- Discovering William Greaves as Self
2005
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ as Self
2001
- Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey ... (Writer)
1989
- That's Black Entertainment as Host/Narrator
- Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice ... (Producer)
1988
- The Deep North ... (Director)
- The Best of Black Journal ... (Director)
1986
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? as Narrator/Interviewer
1985
- Frederick Douglass: An American Life ... (Producer)
1984
- Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story ... (Director)
1982
- Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy ... (Writer)
1981
- Bustin' Loose ... (Executive Producer)
- Space For Women ... (Director)
1979
- Where Dreams Come True ... (Director)
1976
- Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) ... (Producer)
1975
- The Marijuana Affair ... (Director)
1974
- The Fighters ... (Editor)
- The Fight ... (Director)
- Every Nigger Is a Star ... (Cinematography)
- Whose Standard English? ... (Director)
- From These Roots ... (Director)
1972
- Nationtime: Gary ... (Producer)
- On Merit ... (Director)
1971
- Voice of La Raza ... (Writer)
1970
- Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane ... (Producer)
- Black Journal: 23; New-Ark ... (Producer)
1969
- Black Journal: 9 ... (Director)
- In the Company of Men ... (Director)
- Black Journal: 18 ... (Director)
1968
- Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class ... (Director)
- Black Journal ... (Executive Producer)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One as Self - Director
1966
- The First World Festival of Negro Arts as Narrator
1964
- Wealth of a Nation ... (Editor)
1960
- Four Religions ... (Editor)
1959
- Emergency Ward ... (Director)
- High Arctic ... (Writer)
1958
- Smoke and Weather ... (Editor)
- Islands of the Frozen Sea ... (Editor)
- Trans Canada Summer ... (Sound)
- Blood and Fire ... (Editor)
1957
- Profile of a Problem Drinker ... (Editor)
- Putting It Straight ... (Director)
1955
- The Dikes ... (Sound)
- Bush Doctor ... (Sound)
1949
- Lost Boundaries as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
- Souls of Sin as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
1948
- The Fight Never Ends
- Miracle in Harlem as Bert Hallam
1947
- Sepia Cinderella as Patron