Le Roi JonesFilmography

Occupation:
Screenwriter, Play Author

  • A Fable

    Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This tense, tragic drama underscores the horrors of racism in America: not only that perpetuated by whites, but also by blacks. In this story, based on LeRoi Jones' play Slaves, director Al Freeman Jr. plays a black revolutionary leader who has come back to exact his revenge on his ex-wife for Read More

    1971

  • Dutchman

    Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

    Actors: Shirley Knight, Al Freeman, Jr.

    Synopsis: Anthony Harvey directed this adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by African-American playwright Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones). Lula (Shirley Knight), a slatternly woman with a racist streak, encounters Clay (Al Freeman Jr.), a mild-mannered black man, on a New York subway car. Lula Read More

    1966

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