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Lee, Spike

LC control no.n 86129800
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Personal name headingLee, Spike
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Variant(s)Lee, Shelton Jackson
LocatedBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1957-03-20
Place of birthAtlanta (Ga.)
AffiliationMorehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks
Profession or occupationMotion picture producers and directors Screenwriters Actors
Found inSpike Lee's gotta have it, c1987: CIP t.p. (Spike Lee) galley (Shelton Jackson Lee)
Bernotas, B. Spike Lee, c1993: CIP galley (b. Mar. 20, 1957)
IMDb, Apr. 19, 2006 (Spike Lee; b. Mar. 20, 1957, Atlanta, Ga.; sometimes credited as Shelton J. Lee, Shelton Lee; birth name: Shelton Jackson Lee; graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, 1982)
Wikipedia, June 19, 2013 (Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee; born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta; American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. Lee has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award. He has also received two Academy Award nominations. Lives in Brooklyn.)
African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Lee, Spike; Shelton Jackson Lee; motion picture producer / director, screenwriter; born 20 March 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States; BA in Mass Communications, Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia (1979); won the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Best Student Film Award; in 1980 Lee and Monty Ross established the production company Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks; won an Oscar for Best Screenplay (1989); directed a number of documentary films and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (1997))
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