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Oscar Micheaux

Highest Rated: 100% Within Our Gates (1920)

Lowest Rated: 86% Body and Soul (1925)

Birthday: Jan 2, 1884

Birthplace: Metropolis, Illinois, USA

The most prolific black--if not independent--filmmaker in American cinema, Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced and directed nearly forty feature-length films between 1919 and 1948. Despite his importance to black cinema, Micheaux remains an enigmatic and ignored figure; few of his films have survived. In addition, his controversial racial beliefs and technically inferior films make him difficult to interpolate within mainstream film history.

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Highest rated movies

100% 50% Within Our Gates
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86% 55% Body and Soul
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The Gunsaulus Mystery
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Harlem After Midnight
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Birthright
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The Betrayal
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The Exile
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The Darktown Revue
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Murder in Harlem
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Temptation
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Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Micheaux THE EXILE, Nora Newsome, Stanley Morrell, (first talkie 'Race Film'), 1931 THE EXILE, Eunice Brooks, Nora Newsome, Stanley Morrell, (first talkie 'Race Film'), 1931 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Betrayal Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Birthright Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lying Lips Director - 1939
No Score Yet 33% God's Step Children Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Swing Director,
Producer 		- 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Underworld Director - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Temptation Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder in Harlem Director,
Writer,
Producer 		- 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harlem After Midnight Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Veiled Aristocrats Director,
Writer,
Producer 		- 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ten Minutes to Live Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter 		- 1932
No Score Yet 33% The Girl From Chicago Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter 		$56 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Exile Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Darktown Revue Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Easy Street Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thirty Years Later Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Spider's Web Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1926
86% 55% Body and Soul Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1925
No Score Yet No Score Yet The House Behind the Cedars Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gunsaulus Mystery Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 1921
No Score Yet 22% The Symbol of the Unconquered Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter 		- 1920
100% 50% Within Our Gates Director,
Producer,
Screenwriter 		- 1920
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Brute Director - 1920