Charles Burnett
Born: 1944-04-13 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
Filmography
2024
- Hollywood Black as Self
2022
2020
- Cinetracts '20 ... (Director)
2019
- A Walk with Charles Burnett as Self
2018
- The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution ... (Director)
2017
- We Blew It as Self
2016
- Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA as Himself
2011
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
- These Amazing Shadows as Self
2010
- 42 One Dream Rush ... (Director)
2009
- Relative Stranger ... (Director)
2007
- Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation ... (Director)
- Quiet as Kept ... (Director)
2003
- The Blues ... (Writer)
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Lucinda
- Warming by the Devil's Fire ... (Director)
- For Reel? ... (Writer)
2000
- Finding Buck McHenry ... (Director)
- Olivia's Story as Umpire
1999
- Independent Lens ... (Director)
- The Annihilation of Fish ... (Director)
- Selma, Lord, Selma ... (Director)
1998
- The Wedding ... (Director)
1997
- The Final Insult ... (Director of Photography)
- Documenta X - Die Filme ... (Director)
1996
- Nightjohn ... (Director)
1995
- When It Rains ... (Director)
1994
- The Glass Shield ... (Director)
1993
- Sa-I-Gu ... (Camera Operator)
1991
- America Becoming ... (Director of Photography)
1990
- To Sleep with Anger ... (Director)
1989
- From Rags to Reality ... (Director of Photography)
1986
- Crocodile Conspiracy ... (Director of Photography)
1984
- Bless Their Little Hearts ... (Writer)
1983
- My Brother's Wedding ... (Director)
1982
- Illusions ... (Editor)
- A Different Image ... (Director of Photography)
1980
- The Pocketbook ... (Director of Photography)
1979
- Bush Mama ... (Director of Photography)
- Your Children Come Back to You ... (Editor)
1978
- Killer of Sheep ... (Director)
1975
- Welcome Home Brother Charles ... (Camera Operator)
1973
- The Horse ... (Director)
1969
- Several Friends ... (Director)
- 69 Pickup ... (Director of Photography)