As Actor
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014
6.0
Charles Burnett
Acting
Birth date
April 13, 1944
Birth place
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Biography
Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
Featured in
As Actor
These Amazing Shadows
2011
7.4
As Director
Relative Stranger
2009
4.4
As Director, As Writer
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
5.9
As Director, As Writer
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003
6.9
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
6.1
As Director
The Annihilation of Fish
1999
6.5
As Director
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999
7.1
As Director
The Wedding
1998
8.3
As Director
Nightjohn
1996
5.6
As Director, As Writer
When It Rains
1995
5.5
As Director, As Writer
The Glass Shield
1994
4.9
As Director, As Writer
To Sleep with Anger
1990
6.7
As Writer
Bless Their Little Hearts
1984
6.2
As Director, As Writer
My Brother's Wedding
1983
6.7