Melvin Van Peebles
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Melvin Van Peebles
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Melvin Van Peebles was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He worked as an active filmmaker into the early 2020s. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival which gained him the interest of Hollywood studios, leading to his American featu
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American actor and filmmaker (1932–2021)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Van_Peebles
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2003-10-25T00:13:26Z
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2024-09-09T17:45:55Z
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