What is Melvin Van Peebles?
[[File:Melvin Van Peebles Deauville 2012.jpg|right|200px]] '''Melvin Van Peebles''' (August 21, 1932 &ndash; September 22, 2021) was an [[Americans|American]] movie maker, [[actor]], [[novelist]] and [[composer]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Melvin Van Peebles|publisher=The History Makers|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/melvin-van-peebles-41|access-date=April 6, 2019}}</ref> He was the father of actor [[Mario Van Peebles]]. Melvin Van Peebles created and acted in the blaxploitation [[movie]] ''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|title=Melvin Van Peebles|publisher=Biography.com|url=https://www.biography.com/people/melvin-van-peebles-37300|access-date=April 6, 2019|archive-date=April 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406121915/https://www.biography.com/people/melvin-van-peebles-37300|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also acted in many other movies from the 1970s to the 2010s. His first [[Hollywood]] movie was ''Watermelon Man'' in 1970. Van Peebles was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Melvin Van Peebles|publisher=The Black Past|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/van-peebles-melvin-1932|access-date=April 6, 2019}}</ref> He died on September 22, 2021 in [[New York City]], aged 89.<ref>{{cite web |title=Melvin Van Peebles, Godfather of Black Cinema, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/melvin-van-peebles-godfather-of-black-cinema-dies-at-89-1235018862/ |first=Mike|last=Barnes|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=September 22, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Grobar|first=Matt|last2=Grobar|first2=Matt|date=2021-09-22|title=Melvin Van Peebles Remembered: Spike Lee, David Alan Grier & Barry Jenkins Among Those Paying Tribute To Cinema's “True Revolutionary”|url=https://deadline.com/2021/09/melvin-van-peebles-remembered-by-spike-lee-david-alan-grier-barry-jenkins-ava-duvernay-more-1234842533/|access-date=2021-09-23|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref> ==References== <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:V