Actor

Charles Burnett

Contemporaryb. 1944DocumentaryDrama

Chronicler of the Human Condition

Also directed 25 films ↗Also wrote 16 screenplays ↗

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Filmography

2022Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de WattsSelf 2022Is That Black Enough for You?!?Self6.1 2019A Walk with Charles BurnettSelf 2017We Blew ItSelf5.2 2016Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLAHimself 2014Dreams Are Colder Than Death6.0 2011These Amazing Shadows

About

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.

As Director

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1978Killer of Sheep 2007Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation 1994The Glass Shield 1983My Brother's Wedding 1990To Sleep with Anger 2003Warming by the Devil's Fire

As Screenwriter

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1969Several Friends 1990To Sleep with Anger 1984Bless Their Little Hearts 1973The Horse 2007Quiet as Kept 1994The Glass Shield

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