Charles Burnett Biography

Charles Burnett biography

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NAME: Charles Burnett
OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Television Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
BIRTH DATE: April 13, 1944 (Age: 69)
EDUCATION: University of California, Los Angeles
PLACE OF BIRTH: Vicksburg, Mississippi
ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

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Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, writer, actor and cinematographer. His most well known works are Killer of Sheep and To Sleep with Anger.

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Charles Burnett is an African-American film director and actor. Burnett studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles and began filming Killer of Sheep while a student. It came out in 1977. A MacArthur Fellowship allowed him to make To Sleep with Anger, about a black family dealing with its past. He has turned to TV and documentary films, including Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation.