Occupation – Entertainment – Film Director

Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933-2006)
Thérèse Sita-Bella, born Thérèse Bella Mbida in 1933, was a Cameroonian film director who is widely acknowledged as the first...
October 17th, 2023

Sanaa Lathan (1971- )
Sanaa McCoy Lathan is an actress best known for her early roles in 1990’s television shows such as In The House and...
July 13th, 2023

Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
Négritude cinema director, activist, feminist Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on July 19, 1929, in Condom, France, of emigrant...
March 5th, 2022

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (1971- )
Musician, songwriter, disc jockey, music journalist, film director, and drummer Ahmir Thompson, known as “Questlove,” was born January 20, 1971,...
December 13th, 2021

Tyler Perry (1969- )
Tyler Perry is a world-renowned actor, director, producer, writer, and philanthropist. Born Emmitt Perry, Jr. on September 13, 1969 to...
June 22nd, 2020

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (1951- )
Ernest Roscoe Dickerson is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Most notably, he directed Juice (1992), which he co-wrote along...
December 23rd, 2019

Fred Williamson (1938- )
Fred “The Hammer” Williamson is an African American actor-director-writer-producer who built and sustained a long career as a black action...
March 12th, 2019

Bill Duke (1943- )
Film director and actor (William) Bill Duke was born on February 26, 1943 in Poughkeepsie, New York to Ethel Douglas Duke and William Duke Sr....
October 27th, 2018

Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021)
Actor and director Melvin Van Peebles was born on August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois to parents Edwin Griffin and Marion Peebles. He grew...
October 24th, 2018