Lionel Rogosin

Director, Producer

About

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

January 22, 1924

Died

December 08, 2000

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

Good Times, Wonderful Times (1966)

Director

Come Back, Africa (1960)

Director

On the Bowery (1957)

Director

Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969)

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On The Bowery (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Men Of The Bowery

On The Bowery (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Muscatel Drinkers

Biography

Filmography

Life Events

1956

Made first film, "On the Bowery"; earned Oscar nomination

1959

Garnered attention for "Come Back, Africa", which focused on apartheid and introduced Miriam Makemba

1960

Opened the Bleecker Street Theater in Greenwich Village, NYC

1966

Wrote, produced and directed "Good Times, Wonderful Times"

1972

Directed "Black Fantasy"

Videos

On The Bowery (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Men Of The Bowery Opening credit sequence, from the restoration by Rogosin Heritage Inc. and Cineteca del Commune di Bologna, released by Milestone Films, from Lionel Rogosin's landmark documentary On The Bowery, 1956.

On The Bowery (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Muscatel Drinkers The first staged sequence, introducing the de facto leading man Ray Salyer, arriving from railroad work in New Jersey, greeted by Frank Matthews and buying a round, from Lionel Rogosin's documentary On The Bowery, 1956.

On The Bowery (1956) -- (Movie Clip) We Won't Spend Too Much Having sold a pair of pants belonging to Ray Salyer (the younger, newer man), he and friend Gorman Hendricks share the proceeds, then their first night, not quite together, in the Lionel Rogosin documentary On The Bowery,1956.

Black Roots (1970) -- (Movie Clip) -- Nobody Knows You Producer/Director Lionel Rogosin offers his first sample of formally un-related film coverage of African Americans, with Rev. Gary Davis' version of a blues standard, followed by Larry Johnson's recollection of his childhood in Georgia, in Black Roots, 1970.

Come Back, Africa (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Do The Job Zacharia (the non-actor playing himself) gets his training in the mines, and director Lionel Rogosin, having gained access by subterfuge, captures a night shift, in the independent documentary on Apartheid, Come Back, Africa, 1960.

Come Back, Africa (1960) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Call You Jack Zacharia (playing himself), hoping to escape from de-facto servitude in a South African gold mine, seeks work with a Johannesburg couple, portrayed by anti-Apartheid activists Myrtle and Monte Berman, in American director Lionel Rogosin's unauthorized documentary, Come Back, Africa, 1960.

American In Sophiatown, An (2007) -- (Movie Clip) That's Got To Be Stopped Collaborator Lewis Nkosi and Italian documentarian Lorenza Mazzetti are featured, along with the subject, in the opening to An American In Sophiatown, 2007, an account of the making of Lionel Rogosin's Come Back, Africa, 1960.

American In Sophiatown, An (2007) -- (Movie Clip) Happy Accident Lewis Nkosi, a co-writer with the director Lionel Rogosin, recalls his early involvement in the making of Come Back, Africa, 1960, and their colleague William "Bloke" Modisane, in An American In Sophiatown, 2007.

Family

Daniel Rogosin

Son

Producer.

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Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Cast (Feature Film)

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Life Events

1956

1959

1960

1966

1972

Videos

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Family

Bibliography

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