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Gilbert Moses is a Director American born on 20 august 1942 at Cleveland (USA)

Gilbert Moses

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Birth name Gilbert Moses III
Nationality USA
Birth 20 august 1942 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 15 april 1995 (at 52 years) at New York City (USA)

Gilbert Moses III (August 20, 1942 – April 15, 1995) was an American stage, screen, and television director.

Biography

Gilbert Moses est le fondateur de la Free Southern Theater Company. Cette compagnie est l'une des compagnies pionnières du théâtre afro-américain. En 1971, il fait ses débuts en tant que metteur en scène à Broadway dans Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Cette pièce lui permet d'obtenir une nomination aux Tony Award et Drama Desk Award pour la mise en scène. En 1976, il fait équipe avec George Faison pour une comédie musicale au théâtre de Alan Jay Lerner-Leonard Bernstein : c'est un échec et les représentations s'arrêtent après sept éditions.

Il obtient (hors Broadway) un Obie Award pour Slave Ship de Amiri Baraka en 1969 et un New York Drama Critics' Circle Award pour The Taking of Miss Janie en 1975.
Parmi ses réalisations en télévision, on peut citer : Benson (série télévision), Ghostwriter (série télévision), The Paper Chase , Law & Order, ainsi que des épisodes de la mini-série Roots.

Au cinéma, on lui doit Willie Dynamite (1974) et The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979).

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Filmography of Gilbert Moses (3 films)

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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, 1h42
Directed by Gilbert Moses
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Basketball films, Musical films
Actors Jonathan Winters, Stockard Channing, Margaret Avery, Jack Kehoe, Michael Vincenzo Gazzo, Peter Isacksen
Rating53% 2.6553352.6553352.6553352.6553352.655335
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh tells the story of a struggling professional basketball team, the Pittsburgh Pythons, whose continuous losing streak and lack of talent has made them the laughing stock of Pittsburgh. Several players ask to be transferred to other teams, partly due to the bad publicity and the presence of the difficult but highly paid star player, Moses Guthrie (Julius Erving).
Roots (TV miniseries), 9h30
Directed by Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, David Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Uggams
Rating83% 4.198614.198614.198614.198614.19861
In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.
Willie Dynamite, 1h42
Directed by Gilbert Moses
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Roger Robinson, George Murdock, Albert Hall
Rating62% 3.1491753.1491753.1491753.1491753.149175
We first see Willie Dynamite as the film's opening credits begin, with Martha Reeves singing the movie's title song, 'Willie Dynamite.' Willie is driving his 'pimped-out' purple Cadillac on the streets of midtown Manhattan. The front license plate reading the first part of his nickname - 'Willie,' and the back license plate reading the second part - 'Dynamite.' Willie's destination is a midtown hotel, to collect payment from his women - who work the midtown hotels, attracting the many businessmen, conventioneers, who are looking for sex.