Inductees, P-Z

Gordon Parks

Filmmaker, photographer, composer

November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006

Films (as director):

  • The Learning Tree (1969)
  • Shaft (1971)
  • Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
  • The Super Cops (1974)
  • Leadbelly (1976)

Photographs:

  • American Gothic, Washington, D.C. (1942)
  • Self-Portrait (1945)
  • "The Restraints: Open and Hidden"(Photo Essay - 1956)

Wolfe Perry

Actor

January 22, 1957 -

TV Series (as actor):

  • Up and Coming (1980)
  • The White Shadow (1980-1981)
  • Hill Street Blues (1982)
  • Riptide (1985)
  • Misfits of Science (1986)

Films (as actor):

  • Space Rage (1985)
  • Soul Man (1986)

Richard Pryor

Actor, comedian

December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005

Films (as actor):

  • Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
  • Car Wash (1976)
  • The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
  • The Wiz (1978)
  • Stir Crazy (1980)
  • Brewster's Millions (1985)
  • See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

Films (as writer):

  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (1986)

Comedy Albums:

  • ...Is It Something I Said? (1975)
  • Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983)

TV Series (as actor)

  • The Richard Pryor Show (1977)
  • Pryor's Place (1984)

Lillian Randolph

Actor, singer

December 14, 1898 - September 12, 1980

Films (as actor):

  • The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975)
  • Magic (1978)
  • The Onion Field (1979)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Tom and Jerry (1940-1952)
  • Beulah (1952)
  • The Bill Cosby Show (1969)
  • Roots (1977)

Beah Richards

Actor, playwright, activist

July 12, 1920 - September 14, 2000

Films (as actor):

  • Take a Giant Step (1959)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968)
  • The Great White Hope (1970)
  • Beloved (1998)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Frank's Place (1988)
  • The Practice (2000)

Theater (as actor):

  • Take a Giant Step (1955)
  • A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
  • The Amen Corner (1965)

Theater (as playwright)

  • A Black Woman Speaks (1950)
  • One Is a Crowd (1951)

Esther Rolle

Actor

November 8, 1920 - November 17, 1998

Films (as actor):

  • Nothing But a Man (1964)
  • The Learning Tree (1969)
  • Don't Play Us Cheap (1973)
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
  • Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
  • Rosewood (1997)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Maude (1972-1974)
  • Good Times (1974-1979)

Theater (as actor)

  • The Blacks (1962)
  • Don't Play Us Cheap (1972)
  • Macbeth (1977)

Michael Schultz

Director, producer

November 10, 1938 -

Film (as director):

  • To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972)
  • Car Wash (1976)
  • Carbon Copy (1981)
  • Bustin' Loose (1981)
  • Krush Groove (1985)

TV Series (as director):

  • Brothers & Sisters (2007-2010)
  • Arrow (2012 - 2017)

Theater (as director):

  • Kongi's Harvest (1968)
  • Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969)
  • Mule Bone (1991)

Hazel Scott

Jazz pianist, singer, actor, activist

June 11, 1972 -

  • Great Scott! (1947)
  • Relaxed Piano Moods (1955)
  • 'Round Midnight (1957)

Films (as actor):

  • I Dood It (1943)
  • The Heat's On (1943)
  • The Night Affair 1958
  • Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

TV Series (as actor):

  • The Hazel Scott Show (1950)
  • Julia (1969-1970)

Madge Sinclair

Actor

April 28, 1938 - December 20, 1995

Films (as actor):

  • Conrack (1974)
  • Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
  • Coming to America (1988)
  • The Lion King (1994)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Roots (1977)
  • Trapper John, M.D. (1980-1986)
  • Gabriel's Fire (1991)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)

Raymond St. Jacques

Actor, director, producer, activist

March 1, 1930 - August 27, 1990

Films (as actor):

  • Black Like Me (1964)
  • Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
  • Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
  • Book of Numbers (1973)

Films (as director):

  • Book of Numbers (1973)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Rawhide (1965-1966)
  • Roots (1977)
  • Superior Court (1988-1989)

Woody Strode

Actor, author, athlete

July 25, 1914 - December 31, 1994

Films (as actor):

  • The Lion Hunters (1951)
  • Spartacus (1960)
  • Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  • The Professionals (1966)
  • Black Jesus (1968)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Rawhide (1961)
  • Batman (1966)
  • Tarzan (1966-1968)
  • The Dukes of Hazzard (1980)

Vincent Tubbs

Publicist, journalist, activist

September 25, 1915 - January 15, 1989

Films (as publicist):

  • Le Mans (1971)
  • Cleopatra Jones (1973)
  • The Klansman (1974)
  • A Piece of the Action (1977)
  • Fast Forward (1985)

Notable achievements:

  • Elected president of the Hollywood Publicists Guild in 1967, becoming the first Black person to head a major motion picture guild.
  • Co-founder, United Television Movie Equity Guild.
  • Elected president of the BFHFI in 1979.

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)

Activist, poet, artist, educator

November 3, 1920 - September 16, 1993

Films (as actor):

  • Shadow Sisters (1977)
  • The Fringe Dwellers (1986)

Prose:

  • We Are Going: Poems (1964)
  • The Dawn Is at Hand (1966)
  • My People (1970)
  • Stradbroke Dreamtime (1972)

Billy Dee Williams

Actor, novelist, painter

April 6, 1937 -

Films (as actor):

  • The Final Comedown (1972)
  • Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
  • Mahogany (1975)
  • The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
  • The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  • Return of the Jedi (1983)
  • Nighthawks (1981)
  • Batman (1989)

TV Series (as actor):

  • Gideon's Crossing (2000-2001)
  • Dynasty (1984-1985)
  • Double Dare (1985)

Theater (as actor):

  • A Taste of Honey (1960)
  • I Have a Dream (1976)
  • Fences (1988)