Melvin Van Peebles

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AKA: Melvin Peebles
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 08/21/1932
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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 Continued

Credits

(TV Show)
2005-2005
Kenneth Daly
2005
Kenneth Daly
2005
Source Material
2004
Sweetback
2003
Executive Producer
1997
Narrator
1997
screenplay
1997
Abel
Papa Joe
Edwin, Doofus and Ex-Doofus
Co-Executive Producer
Actor
George
screenplay
Producer
Source Material
Director
Director
Director
Screenplay
Source Material (from novel)
Source Material (from novel)
Play as Source Material
screenplay
screenplay
screenplay
Screenplay
Producer

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)
Continued

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