Charles Burnett

Born: 1944-04-13, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

Biography

Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.

Filmography

• The Blues (2003)
• Killer of Sheep (1978)
• To Sleep with Anger (1990)
• 42 One Dream Rush (2010)
• Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
• Nightjohn (1996)
• Relative Stranger (2009)
• Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
• Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
• My Brother's Wedding (1985)
• The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
• America Becoming (1991)
• Several Friends (1969)
• Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)
• The Final Insult (1997)
• The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (2018)
• Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA (2016)
• Cinetracts '20 (2020)