Английская Википедия:Hal DeWindt
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Harold "Hal" DeWindt was an American producer, director, actor, and model. He worked to increase opportunities for African Americans in the arts.[1][2]
Early life
DeWindt was born and raised in Harlem.[3] His father Clifford acted with the original Lafayette Theatre.[3]
Career
In 1959, DeWindt became the first male model for the Ebony Fashion Fair. He traveled with that fashion troupe for two years.[2]
DeWindt began his stage career in the Broadway play Golden Boy.[3] He played a leading role in the Louis S. Peterson play Entertain A Ghost.[4] He also appeared in the Kurt Weill musical Lost in the Stars.[5] In 1962, DeWindt staged an Off-Broadway production of Raisin' Hell in the Son, a spoof of A Raisin in the Sun that he co-wrote with Reni Santoni.[1][6]
DeWindt served as production stage manager at the New York Shakespeare Festival for seven years.[1] He was a director with Robert Hooks's Group Theater Workshop, which led to the creation of the Negro Ensemble Company,[1] which he served with as a workshop director.[7]
DeWindt was the founder and artistic director of the American Theatre of Harlem, and artistic director of the Inner City Repertory Company in Los Angeles.[1][2] In 1977, he formed the Hal DeWindt Theatre in San Francisco.[7]
DeWindt helped Arthur Mitchell bring the Dance Theatre of Harlem to Broadway, and helped Leonard Bernstein bring black musicians into the New York Philharmonic.[1][5][2] In 1969, as assistant producer of The Angel Levine, DeWindt helped run a black apprenticeship program funded by a Ford Foundation grant.[1] He also worked on a number of other film and television productions, and led acting workshops.[1] DeWindt acted on television as well.[1]
In 1983, DeWindt co-authored the book Kill, Bubba, Kill! with former NFL player and actor Bubba Smith.[8][9] DeWindt was serving as an acting professor at Loyola Marymount University at the time of his death.[2][7]
Personal life and death
In 1958, DeWindt and his wife Violet had their first child, Hal D. Jr.[10] In 1975, DeWindt met actress Sheila Wills when she enrolled in an actor's workshop he was teaching in Los Angeles. They married two years later.[11] The couple divorced in 1981.[12] In 1984, DeWindt married actress/model Angelique.[13] He later married another woman, Suzanne.[1]
DeWindt died of cancer in Los Angeles on June 22, 1997. The New York Times reported his age at death as 63.[1]
Filmography (selected)
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Youngblood | Associate producer | |
| 1978 | A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich | Associate producer | |
| 1975 | Barbary Coast | Director | |
| 1970 | The Angel Levine | Assistant producer | |
| 1968 | Get Smart | Novak | Episode: The Worst Best Man |
| 1968 | The Wild Wild West | Taro | Episode: The Night of the Undead |
References
External links
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