Jackie Mclean - Turner Classic Movies

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Died

March 31, 2006

Biography

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Jackie McLean's acting talents were showcased on the big screen many times throughout the course of her Hollywood career. McLean began her career with a role in "The Connection" (1962). She went on to act in "Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters" (PBS, 1993-94). Later in her career, McLean appeared on "Jazz" (PBS, 2000-01). McLean passed away in March 2006....

Filmography

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The Connection (1962)

A Matter of Degrees (1990)

Song ("Little Melonae")

Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters (1994)

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Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Who Killed Cock Robin?

Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Feel Like Getting Busted

Biography

Jackie McLean's acting talents were showcased on the big screen many times throughout the course of her Hollywood career. McLean began her career with a role in "The Connection" (1962). She went on to act in "Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters" (PBS, 1993-94). Later in her career, McLean appeared on "Jazz" (PBS, 2000-01). McLean passed away in March 2006.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Connection (1962)

Music (Feature Film)

A Matter of Degrees (1990)

Song ("Little Melonae")

Cast (Special)

Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters (1994)

Life Events

Videos

Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Who Killed Cock Robin? First of many performances which alone justify making the film, pianist Freddie Redd’s composition, with alto sax hero Jackie McLean, Mike Mattos and Larry Ritchie, bass and drums, William Redfield the filmmaker, Shirley Clarke actually directing, from Jack Gelber’s play and screenplay, in The Connection 1962.

Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Feel Like Getting Busted It’s now clear that Leach (Warren Finnerty) and his fellow heroin-addict guests are being directed by a barely-seen documentarian, musicians Mike Mattos, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean and Larry Ritchie as themselves, Jerome Raphel as Sully, Garry Goodrow as Ernie, in Shirley Clarke’s The Connection, 1962.

Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) In A Drug Addict's Apartment Challenging from the start, Shirley Clarke directs from Jack Gelber’s experimental play and screenplay, Roscoe Lee Browne the voice of cameraman character, Burden, the opening address to camera by Leach (Warren Finnerty) the de facto host of the junkies waiting to score, in The Connection, 1962.

Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Not Get Hostile! The director character (William Redfield as Dunn) all-but giving up, addressing his cameraman JJ (unseen Roscoe Lee Browne), Warren Finnerty as host heroin-addict Leach, musician Jackie McLean as himself, and the documentary premise explained, in director Shirley Clarke’s The Connection, 1962.

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