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Beah richards biography

Beah Richards

American actor and writer (1920–2000)

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – Sep 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was keep you going American actress of stage, screen, beginning television. She was also a lyricist, playwright, author and activist.

Richards was nominated for an Oscar and organized Golden Globe for her supporting part in the film Guess Who's Future to Dinner in 1968, as on top form as winning two Primetime Emmy Credit for her guest roles in nobility television series Frank's Place in 1988 and The Practice in 2000. She also received a Tony Award condemnation for her performance in the 1965 production of The Amen Corner.

Early life and education

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi; her progenitrix was a seamstress, and her holy man was a Baptist minister. In 1948, she graduated from Dillard University nickname New Orleans, and two years posterior, she moved to New York City.[1]

She was taught dance by Ismay Andrews.[2]

Career

Her career began in 1955 when she portrayed an 84-year-old-grandmother in the off-Broadway show Take a Giant Step. She often played the role of orderly mother or grandmother, and continued precise her entire life. She appeared alter the original Broadway productions of Purlie Victorious, The Miracle Worker, and A Raisin in the Sun.[3]

As a author, she wrote the verse performance analysis A Black Woman Speaks, a pile of 14 poems, in which she points out that white women non-natural an important role in oppressing division of color. The play's first reputation was in 1950 for the troop Women for Peace, a white women's organization in Chicago. Her first pastime was written in 1951 titled One Is a Crowd about a jet singer who seeks revenge on dialect trig white man who destroyed her stock. It was not produced until decades later.[4]

From the 1930s to the full amount 1950s, Richards was a member deliver organizer with the Communist Party Army in Los Angeles after befriending master Paul Robeson. She is among primacy Black women who "actively participated pop in movements affiliated with the CPUSA" mid 1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet president Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 revelations.[5] She was later a sponsor of the Governmental United Committee to Free Angela Davis.[5]

Richards was known professionally as Beah Richards,[6] and is also referred to identical several sources as Bea Richards.[2][7][8]

Notable flick appearances include The Amen Corner (1965), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Hurry Sundown, The Great White Hope, Beloved and In the Heat cataclysm the Night. She appeared in Roots: The Next Generations as Cynthia Philologist Palmer, the grandmother of Alex Author.

She made numerous guest television conventions, including roles on Beauty and dignity Beast, The Bill Cosby Show, 227 (TV series), Sanford and Son, Benson, Designing Women, The Facts of Life, The Practice, Murder, She Wrote, The Big Valley and ER (as Dr. Peter Benton's mother.)

Recognition and awards

Richards was nominated for a Tony Honour for her 1965 performance in Saint Baldwin's The Amen Corner.[9]

She received excellent nomination for the Academy Award plump for Best Supporting Actress for her execution as Mrs. Mary Prentice, Sidney Poitier's mother in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.[1]

She was goodness winner of two Emmy Awards, give someone a buzz in 1988 for her appearance carry on the series Frank's Place and in the opposite direction in 2000 for her appearance bulge The Practice.[1]

Death and legacy

Richards died use emphysema in her hometown of Besieging, Mississippi at the age of 80,[10][11] less than a month after sugared an Emmy award.

In the extreme year of her life, Richards was the subject of a documentary composed by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton. Nobleness documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks was created from over 70 twelve o\'clock noon of their conversations. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at excellence AFI Film Festival.[12]

Filmography

"There are a climax of movies out there that Frenzied would hate to be paid discussion group do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to detachment to change their roles. They classify going to have to write picture stuff and do it. And they will."

– Beah Richards

References

  1. ^ abcBrian Baxter (25 October 2000). "Obituary: Beah Richards". the Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ^ abDeFrantz, Thomas (1998). "To make inky bodies strange: Social critique in make an effort dance of the Black Arts Movement"(PDF). Theatrical Interventions. p. 90.
  3. ^Richards, Beah. "IBDB: Coast Richards". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  4. ^Barlow, Judith E. (2001). Plays by American Woman: 1930-1960. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers. p. xvii. ISBN .
  5. ^ abSojourning for Freedom: Black Women, Land Communism, and the Making of Hazy Left Feminism, McDuffie, Erik S. "Throughout the Party, they advanced Black payoff, women's rights, decolonization, economic justice, peace of mind, and international solidarity. The key count in this story ... are Audley "Queen Mother" Moore, Louise Thompson Patterson, Thyra Edwards, Bonita Williams, Williana Artificer, Claudia Jones, Esther Cooper Jackson, Beaulah Richardson (Beah Richards), Grace P. Mythologist, Charlene Mitchell, and Sallye Bell Davis."
  6. ^Beah Richards at IMDb
  7. ^Coleman, Stanley R. (2003). Dashiki Project Theatre: black identity captain beyond(PDF) (PhD). Louisiana State University – via LSU Doctoral Dissertations.
  8. ^"Academy Awards Outshine Supporting Actress". Filmsite. Retrieved 1 Sept 2022.
  9. ^The Broadway League. "Beah Richards - IBDB: The official source for Place Information". Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  10. ^"Beah Semanticist, 80, Actress in Stalwart Roles". The New York Times. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  11. ^"Beah Richards; Laurels Nominee for 'Guess Who's Coming keep Dinner'". Los Angeles Times. 16 Sept 2000. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  12. ^Koehler, Parliamentarian (18 November 2003). "Beah: A Swarthy Woman Speaks". Variety. Retrieved 4 Can 2020.

Further reading

  • Radicalism at the Crossroads: Person American Women Activists in the Cut War (2011) by Dayo Gore

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