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Oscar Micheaux

オスカー・ミショー　/　おすかー・みしょー

American film director

January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951　・　Metropolis, Illinois, United States

Illinois
film director
novelist
writer

My Take

Micheaux is one of those figures I think gets name-checked far more often than he is actually watched, and that bothers me. Building more than 44 films as a Black author-director-producer in early-twentieth-century America was not a career so much as an act of sheer will against a system designed to shut him out. The Hall of Fame honor and the Walk of Fame star arrived as overdue applause. What I admire most is the refusal to wait for permission; he simply made the work. I would happily trade ten polished modern biopics for one honest screening of what he built first.

Overview

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: ; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race films, and has been described as "the…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Oscar Micheaux
Name (Japanese): オスカー・ミショー
Reading: おすかー・みしょー
Born: January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Monkey
Origin: Metropolis, Illinois, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / novelist / writer / actor / screenwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

1976 Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Story of Dorothy Stanfield	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC

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