Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles (born August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, director, screenwriter and composer, and the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles.

Filmography

As director:

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• Pickup Men for Herrick (short, 1957) also writer and composer
• Sunlight (short, 1957) also writer, composer and producer
• Cinq cent balles (short, 1963) also writer and composer
• The Story of a Three-Day Pass (also known as La Permission, 1967) also writer, from his novel La Permission, and composer
• Watermelon Man (1970) also composer
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) also actor, writer, composer, co-producer and editor
• Don't Play Us Cheap (1973) also writer, from his book Harlem Party and stage musical Don't Play Us Cheap, and composer
• Identity Crisis (1989) also actor, producer and editor
• Vroom Vroom Vroooom (segment from Tales of Erotica, also known as Erotic Tales, 1996) also writer, composer, producer and editor
• Gang in Blue (1996) co-director, actor and producer
• Le Conte du ventre plein (also known as Bellyful, 2000) also writer, composer and delegate producer

OTHER CREDITS

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• Just an Old Sweet Song (also known as Down Home, Robert Ellis Miller, 1976) made for television; screenwriter and theme song
• Greased Lightning (Michael Schultz, 1977) screenwriter
• The Sophisticated Gents (Harry Falk, 1981) made for television; actor, screenwriter, song ?Greased Lightning? and producer
• The Day They Came to Arrest the Book (Gilbert Moses, 1987) made for television; screenwriter
• (Joseph Sargent, 1987) actor
• Sonny Spoon (1988) television series; actor
• Posse (Mario Van Peebles, 1993) actor
• Panther (Mario Van Peebles, 1995) based on his novel Panther, screenwriter, actor and producer
• The Shining (Mick Garris, 1997) television movie; actor
• Melvin Van Peebles' Classified X (Mark Daniels, 1998) documentary; screenwriter, actor and executive producer)
• The Hebrew Hammer (Jonathan Kesselman, 2003) actor