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Bill Duke - My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera

English · Hardback

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This is the memoir of Bill Duke, one of the first-and few-African Americans to direct for both television and feature films. Duke recalls his childhood, the importance of his family and mentors, and the challenges he faced as an African American-to not only achieve success as an actor, but more significantly as a director in a very white Hollywood.

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Bill Duke is an actor, director, producer, and humanitarian who has more than sixty films and television shows to his credits. His directing credits include A Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and Hoodlum, as well as episodes of Dallas, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, and Miami Vice. His acting credits include Bird on a Wire, Commando, Menace II Society, Predator, Payback, X-Men: The Last Stand, and several television shows, including Law and Order: SVU. He is the president of Duke Media Entertainment, a production company that produces films and television shows, and head of the Duke Media Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to train and empower underserved and gifted high school students in the disciplines of media literacy and financial literacy.

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This is the memoir of Bill Duke, one of the first-and few-African Americans to direct for both television and feature films. Duke recalls his childhood, the importance of his family and mentors, and the challenges he faced as an African American-to not only achieve success as an actor, but more significantly as a director in a very white Hollywood.

Product details

Authors Bill Duke, Duke Bill
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.11.2018
 
EAN 9781538105559
ISBN 978-1-5381-0555-9
No. of pages 232
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Films, cinema, Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: arts and entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General

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