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Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer. Director Lee stars in the...
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Danny Aiello
Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr. (born June 20, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Léon:...
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist.
Davis was born Raiford Chatman Davis in Cogdell, Clinch County, Georgia. The name Ossie came from a county clerk...
John Turturro
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American actor, writer, and director best known for his performances in Barton Fink (1991), Quiz Show (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He has appeared in...
Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist.
Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a cook,...
Richard Edson
Richard Edson (born January 1, 1954) is an American actor and musician.
Edson was born in New Rochelle, New York. From 1981 to 1982, he was Sonic Youth's original drummer and also played drums for Konk at the same time. After the release of Sonic...
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
Lee's movies have examined race relations, the...
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn (born October 20, 1953) is an American actor.
Nunn was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of William G. Nunn, Jr., a well-known journalist and editor at the Pittsburgh Courier, as well as an NFL scout. Nunn's paternal grandfather...
Rosie Perez
Rosa María "Rosie" Pérez (born September 6, 1964) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist.
Pérez was born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick to Puerto Rican parents. Her mother Lydia Pérez (née Fontañez)...
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American film and television actor and director.
Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father and African-American mother. His mother was an opera and nightclub...
John Savage
John Savage (born John Youngs; August 25, 1949) is an American film actor, producer, production manager, and composer.
His first major film role was as Steven in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, the story of a group of Russian American steel workers...
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor. After Jackson became involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then, films. He had several small roles,...
