Elder, Lonne

LC control no.	n 90617268
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Elder, Lonne *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	U.S.
Birth date	1927-12-26
Death date	1996-06-11
Place of birth	Americus, Ga.
Place of death	Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
Field of activity	Performing arts
Affiliation	ABC Television Network
Profession or occupation	Actors Dramatists Screenwriters
Found in	nuc89-38154: His Sounder, 1986? (hdg. on DHU rept.: Elder, Lonne; usage: Lonne Elder III) LC data base, 03-06-90 (hdg.: Elder, Lonne) NUCMC data from Boston University, Dept. of Special Collections for Lonne Elder III collection, [19--] (Lonne Elder III; political activist, playwright, screenwriter; b. 1931; d. 1996) Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2013 (Lonne Elder III, b. in Americus, Georgia, Dec. 26, 1927; d. in Woodland Hills, Calif., June 11, 1996; American actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he became the first African American, with Suzanne de Passe, to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing) The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Elder, Lonne III; dramatist, screenwriter; born in 1931 in Americus, Georgia, United States; his most celebrated drama, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, reflects reality of black experience in the twentieth century; screenplays Sounder and Melinda re-emphasize a commitment to humanistic portrayals of African Americans; was a scriptwriter for the ABC series N.Y.P.D.; with the Negro Ensemble Company was a coordinator of the directors/playwrights' unit, and actor in Ward's Day of Absence (1967-1969); wrote scripts for the series McCloud (1970-1971); was a screenwriter for The Terrible Veil and A Woman Called Moses (1963,1978); famous screenplays include, Part Two, Sounder for ABC and the adaptation of Bustin' Loose (1976,1981); died in1996 in Woodland Hills, California, United States)
Associated language	eng