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1477: 286:“Actually, I first started writing when I was about six or seven years old, though not with the idea of being a "writer". I don’t think I even knew what a writer was. I just liked the idea of writing to myself; it was a way of expressing feelings that I didn’t know how to express in other ways, like talking. There was no one to whom I could convey those kind of thoughts and emotions in the environment I grew up in." 521:, wrote: "The director, Martin Ritt, working from a scrupulous, unsentimental script by Lonne Elder III, based on the William H. Armstrong novel, avoids charging up the scenes the movie earns every emotion we feel. And I think it will move audiences – move them truly, that is – as few films ever have." The film garnered four nominations at the 345:(1961). It was an early expression of Elder's chosen theme of the black family in a hostile America. Elder married Betty Gross in 1963 and the couple had a son, (David Dubois Elder) but they divorced four years later. He continued to make a living as a gambler, an actor, and other odd jobs. In 1965, he appeared in a production of his play 596:
In the 1980s Elder became disillusioned with Hollywood. Perhaps a result of his efforts to change the way black people were depicted in films and television, he was kept on the payroll by studio employers but denied work on important projects. “They decided they were going to teach me a lesson, and
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in drama, along with several other drama awards. The play deals with a 1950s Harlem family—Russell B. Parker, a barber (portrayed by Ward in the original production) who spends most of his time reminiscing about his glory days as a vaudeville dancer, his two unemployed sons, who live on the edge of
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Due to tragic circumstances, Elder was orphaned at a young age and his aunt and uncle in Jersey City, New Jersey continued his upbringing, along with that of his four siblings. His uncle was a numbers runner, and Elder followed him on his rounds, collecting betting slips. Elder completed his formal
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in Trenton in 1949, but dropped out before the end of his freshman year. He then moved to New York's Harlem neighborhood, took classes at the New School for Social Research, and became involved in the growing civil rights movement. In 1952, Elder was drafted into the
276:, to Lonne Elder II and Quincy Elder, Elder grew up in impoverished conditions during the Great Depression. As a small child, his mother encouraged him to read and, he reported that storytelling often occupied his mind. In an interview with Liz Gant in 438:“I wrote to write, out of my guts and my heart, I wanted to cause some kind of wonder in the minds of people. I don’t rant or rave about the terror of our racist society. It is never directly stated, it is just there.” 497:
in 1969, and the two had a son, Christian. He moved the family to Los Angeles to pursue an already burgeoning career writing for television. His first motion picture assignment was adapting
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stated in her review, “Ceremonies is the first play by Lonne Elder III to be done professionally, and if any American has written a finer one I can’t think what it is.”
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was one of the most meaningful theatrical events of the late sixties, a culmination of Elder’s meditations on the black family unit in a hostile American society.
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noted that "the play had become a contemporary classic." The subsequent productions of the play nurtured the stage careers of several prominent actors, including
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figures who informed the New York theater world with social and political consciousness. He also wrote scripts for television and film. His best known play,
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In 1980, Elder and his wife welcomed a third child to the family, a daughter they named Loni-Christine. The following year his collaboration with
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is the most truthful play I have seen in a long time. Everyone connected with it deserves a prize, especially the author, Lonne Elder III."'
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including Best Adapted Screenplay. Elder was the first African-American male to receive this honor and went on to write the sequel.
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playwrights’ division from 1967 until 1969, and when they launched their first season at New York's St. Mark's Playhouse in 1969,
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In the blaxploitation era, Elder scripted the most challenging example of the genre, a noir-infused crime melodrama called
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Returning from the army, Elder immersed himself in the Harlem literary scene, receiving direct encouragement from poets
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remains the definitive black American family drama and the blueprint for how to tell that story.
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on Staten Island. The reading of the play propelled him to a fellowship in screenwriting at the
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School of Drama in 1966 and 1967, and won him several financial awards. His one-act play
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Sharing an apartment with Ward also helped inspire Elder to write a play titled
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the law, and his daughter, who resentfully supports the family. Elder said in
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in London, England. In 1990 he was called in to re-write the book version of
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The New Jersey State Teachers' College (now The College of New Jersey)
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in 1959. Inspired by Hansberry and his friendship with dramatist
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The Godfather and The Candidate Win Writing Awards: 1973 Oscars
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garnered positive reviews, and was the runner-up for the 1969
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African American Dramatists: An A-to-Z Guide: Lonne Elder III
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for Most Promising Playwright and was nominated for the
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into a screenplay to be directed by acclaimed director
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for two years I couldn’t get arrested,” he told the
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Lonne Elder
Americus, Georgia
Woodland Hills, California
Actor
playwright
screenwriter
Judyann Elder
actor
playwright
screenwriter
African-American
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Drama Desk Award
Pulitzer Prize
Negro Ensemble Company
Suzanne de Passe
Lady Sings the Blues
Academy Award
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sounder
Cicely Tyson
Paul Winfield
Kevin Hooks
Martin Ritt
Americus, Georgia
Black World
The New Jersey State Teachers' College (now The College of New Jersey)
United States Army
Robert Hayden
Langston Hughes

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