Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame

The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1974, in Oakland, California. It supports and promotes black filmmaking, and preserves the contributions by African-American artists both before and behind the camera. It also sponsors advance screenings of films by and about people of African descent and hosts the Oscar Micheaux Award, held each February in Oakland.

This is a partial list of inductees:

Inductees

1973

Clarence Muse (1889 - 1979)
Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006)

1974

Katherine Dunham (1909 - 2006)
Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry) (1902 - 1985)
Paul Robeson (1898 – 1976)

1975

Ruby Dee (1922 - 2014)
Allen Hoskins (1920 - 1980)
Hall Johnson (1888 - 1970)
Abbey Lincoln (1930 - 2010)
Hattie McDaniel (1895 - 1952)
Butterfly McQueen (1911 - 1995)
Louis S. Peterson (1922 - 1998)
Fredi Washington (1903 - 1994)

1976

Eubie Blake (1887 – 1983)
Louise Beavers (1902 - 1962)
Oscar Micheaux (1884 – 1951)
Brock Peters (1927 – 2005)
Melvin Van Peebles (1932 - )
Diahann Carroll (1935 - 2019)

1977

Maidie Norman (1912 - 1998)
Cicely Tyson (1924 - )

1978

Benny Carter (1907 – 2003)
Nicholas Brothers - Fayard (1914-2006), Harold (1921-2000)
Nina Mae McKinney (1912 - 1967)
Sidney Poitier (1927 - )

1979

Lonne Elder III (1927 - 1996)
Earl "Fatha" Hines (1903 - 1983)
Herb Jeffries (1913 - 2014)
Etta Moten Barnett (1901 - 2004)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920 - 1993)
Floyd Norman (1935 - )
Diana Sands (1934 - 1973)
Leo D. Sullivan
Paul Winfield (1939 - 2004)

1980

Vinnette Carroll (1922 - 2002)
Ivan Dixon (1931 - 2008)
James Edwards (1918 - 1970)
William Greaves (1926 -2014)
Lillian Randolph (1898 - 1980)
Frank Silvera (1914 - 1970)
Woody Strode (1914 - 1994)

1982

Cab Calloway (1907 - 1994)

1984

Billy Dee Williams (1937 - )

1986

Madame Sul-Te-Wan (1873 - 1959)

1987

Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925 - 1990)
Scatman Crothers (1910 - 1986)
Jeni Le Gon (1916 - 2012)
Ernie Morrison (1912 - 1989)

1990

Suzanne de Passe (1948 - )
Danny Glover (1946 - )

1991

Michael Schultz (1938 – )
August Wilson (1945 - 2005)

1993

Madeline Anderson
Rosalind Cash (1938 - 1995)

1994

Jahn F. Overstreet (1965- )

1995

William D. Alexander (1916 – 1991)

See also

Sources

Moon, Spencer. Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers, Greenwood Press, (1997) - ISBN 0-313-29830-0
Peterson, Bernard L. Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816–1960, Greenwood Press, (2000) - ISBN 0-313-29534-4

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