William Greaves
William Garfield Greaves was an American filmmaker and actor. Trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as a stage and film actor but became disillusioned with the roles available to Black performers, and transitioned into a career as a pioneering documentarian at the highest of the civil rights movement. He produced more than 200 documentaries, and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations.
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🎬 Movies
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
director
2026
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
director
2001
That's Black Entertainment
director
1989
From These Roots
director
1974
The Voice of La Raza
director
1972
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
director
1968
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
writer
1968
Still a Brother
director
1968