Lonne Elder III

Lonne Elder III was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Elder was one of the leading AfricanAmerican figures who aggressively informed the New York theater world with social and political consciousness. He also wrote scripts for television and film. His most well known play, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men won him a Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The play, which was about a Harlem barber and his family, was produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969. In 1973, he and Suzanne de Passe became the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award in writing. Elder was nominated for his performance in the 1972 film Sounder, starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks and directed by Martin Ritt.

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