Oscar Micheaux
American writer and director (1884-1951) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 67
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.
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Alice B. Russell Produced The Darktown Revue and Murder In Harlem
Evelyn Preer Also in The Homesteader and Within Our Gates
Juano Hernández Oscar directed Lying Lips (1939)
Robert Earl Jones Oscar directed Lying Lips (1939)
Oscar Polk Oscar directed Underworld (1937)
Amanda Randolph Also in Underworld, Swing! and Lying Lips
Lawrence Chenault Also in The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the Ku Klux Klan (1920)
Charles Chesnutt Also in The Conjure Woman (1926)
Paul Robeson Oscar directed Body and Soul (1925)
Trixie Smith Also in God's Step Children and Swing!
Tim Moore Oscar directed Darktown Revue (1931)
Edna Mae Harris Also in Lying Lips and The Notorious Elinor Lee
Charles R. Moore Also in The Exile and God's Step Children
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Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race films, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century." He produced both silent films and sound films.