Melvin Van PeeblesAKA:
Melvin Peebles
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
08/21/1932 Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois
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biography
The cinema is just one medium in which the multi-talented Melvin Van Peebles has distinguished himself. After serving a stint in the US Air Force, he lived in Mexico where he worked as a portrait painter in the mid-1950s. Van Peebles made his first short films ("Sunlight" and "Three Pickup Men for Herrick", 1958) while working in a San Francisco post office. He went on to live in Holland and France and earned his living as a crime reporter in Paris where he also began writing French language novels. Van Peebles made his feature debut adapting his novel, "La Permission/The Story of a Three-Day
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milestones
Year
Milestone
Served as a navigator and bombardier in the US Air Force Stategic Air Command for three years
1957
Lived in Mexico where he worked as a portrait painter (date approximate)
1958
Made short films, "Sunlight" and "Three Pick-Up Men for Herrick" while earning living as cable car grip and post office employee in San Francisco
Lived in Holland and France; in Paris, worked as crime reporter and began writing novels (in French)
1964
Debut as stage writer, lyricist and composer, "Harlem Party" (first produced in Belgium)
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