• Lonne Elder III (December 26, 1927 – June 11, 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Elder was one of the leading African-American...
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  • she played the role of Russell B. Parker's young love interest in Lonne Elder III's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and toured with the company to London and...
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  • 1972 American drama film directed by Hugh A. Robertson and written by Lonne Elder III. The film stars Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, Paul...
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  • Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is an American two-act play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway in 1969 at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production...
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  • a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong. The story concerns an...
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  • Scott and Michael Schultz (uncredited) and written by Pryor (story), Lonne Elder III (adaptation), and Roger L. Simon (screenplay). Along with starring...
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    Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr., Lonne Elder III, John Fiedler and Diana Sands. After graduating high school, he apprenticed...
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  • Walter Lee Younger Ruby Dee – Ruth Younger Ivan Dixon – Joseph Asagai Lonne Elder III – Bobo John Fiedler – Karl Lindner Louis Gossett Jr. – George Murchison...
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    the instructors were Barbara Ann Teer, Frances Foster, Hal DeWindt, Lonne Elder III, and Ronnie Mack. Alumni include Antonio Fargas, Hattie Winston, and...
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    Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). One of the writers on the series was Lonne Elder, who would later become the first African-American nominated for a Best...
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  • Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel of the same name. Although Lonne Elder III and Robert B. Radnitz returned as screenwriter and producer respectively...
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    Philip Cook Charles F. Crisp Charles R. Crisp Cassandra Pickett Durham Lonne Elder III Millard Fuller Chan Gailey Jimmy Garrison Victor Green Dr. Shirley...
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  • in the Night"; Adrienne Kennedy for Funnyhouse of a Negro (1963); Lonne Elder III for an early version of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1965), and Jonathan...
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  • Commandments 10 Jo Van Fleet 81 US Actress East of Eden Cool Hand Luke 11 Lonne Elder III 68 US Screenwriter Sounder Melinda 11 Brigitte Helm 90 Germany Actress...
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    Meanwhile, longtime resident David Elder (the grandson of Joseph Gross and the son of playwright and screenwriter Lonne Elder III) filed a lawsuit in 2005 to...
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  • Epstein based on the story Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries Sounder – Lonne Elder III based on the novel by William H. Armstrong Best Foreign Language Film...
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    Screenplay Year Name Film Adapted From Status Milestone / Notes 1972 Lonne Elder III Sounder Sounder by William H. Armstrong Nominated First African-American...
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  • cyclist Linda Elder, American educational psychologist Lonne Elder III (1927–1996), American playwright and screenwriter Lorenzo W. Elder (1820–1892),...
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  • 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...
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  • experience. The company's nurturing of black playwrights (such as Lonne Elder III with Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and Charles Fuller with Zooman and...
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  • artist. Ulysses Dove, 49, American dancer, AIDS-related complications. Lonne Elder III, 68, American actor and dramatist. George Hees, 85, Canadian politician...
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    Julius J. Epstein The novella Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries Sounder Lonne Elder III The novel by William H. Armstrong 1973 (46th) The Exorcist William...
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  • of heroin. 6 "Blockhouse Breakdown" Richard C. Bennett Teleplay by Lonne Elder III, Story by John Thomas James November 8, 1973 (1973-11-08) Toma goes...
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  • Television Consultants / Universal Clearances Oz Scott (director); Lonne Elder III, Richard Pryor, Roger L. Simon (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Cicely...
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  • adapted by Robert David MacDonald Ceremonies in Dark Old Men – by Lonne Elder III The Tempest – by William Shakespeare A Man's a Man – by Bertolt Brecht...
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  • 20th Century Fox / Radnitz/Mattel Productions Martin Ritt (director); Lonne Elder III (screenplay); Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Matthews...
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  • pp. 3–6. DK 37964. The liner notes credit "Lonnie Elders"; other sources credit "Lonne Elder III." Santoro, Gene (2000). Myself when I Am Real. New York:...
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  • Thomas Baptiste in 1973 – the last being Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonne Elder III. There were also pantomime productions such as Anansi and Brer Englishman...
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  • diaspora. Other writers who have been associated with the HWG include Lonne Elder III, Douglas Turner Ward, Ossie Davis, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Maya...
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    New York City. There, he became friends with Lorraine Hansberry and Lonne Elder III. Ward became a member of the Progressive Party at the end of the 1940s...
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