* 1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter

According to Melvin Van Peebles, the original production was of a white detective story, but following the success of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the original script was scrapped in favor of an adaptation of Ernest Tidyman's 1970 novel Shaft, which focused on a black detective.

Journalist Dale Van Atta has written a biography of Laird entitled, " With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics ," published by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

* Van Atta, Dale, " With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics ," The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

By the time production wrapped, Cinemation had released Melvin Van Peebles ' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song to considerable success, despite the X rating it had received.

In 1971, the group also recorded the soundtrack of the Melvin Van Peebles film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.

Released at the Sundance Film Festival, the film was based on Melvin Van Peebles ' struggle to film and distribute the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and was directed by his son Mario Van Peebles.

* Melvin Van Peebles – The True American, A Folk Fable

* Melvin Van Peebles – Just an Old Sweet Song

* Classified X-a 1998 documentary film by Mark Daniels and Melvin Van Peebles about the history of blacks in cinema.

** Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death – Book, music, and lyrics by Melvin Van Peebles.

That same year he appeared Off-Broadway in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death.

Melvin " Block " Van Peebles ( born August 21, 1932 ) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.

In 2008, Van Peebles completed the film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha, and appeared on All My Children as Melvin Woods, the father of Samuel Woods, a character portrayed by his son, Mario.

In 2011, Van Peebles started doing shows in NYC with members of Burnt Sugar, under the name Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative.

In November, 2011, Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative performed his song " Love, that's America " at Zebulon Cafe Concert, two weeks after the venue showed the original video for this song involving Occupy Wall Street footage, which was uploaded to Youtube in October 2011.

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Spoken word artists such as The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron and Melvin Van Peebles are also cited as the major innovators in early hip-hop.

Rolle's most prominent early role was as Miss Maybell in the 1973 Melvin Van Peebles play, Don't Play Us Cheap.

Farmer was born in Seattle, to Ernest Melvin Farmer and Cora Lillian ( Van Ornum ) Farmer.

During its six season run, many familiar actors guest-starred on the show, along with other lesser-known performers who later achieved stardom, among them: John Charles Daly, Elaine Joyce, Gary Dubin, Herbert Anderson, June Foray, Robert Cummings, Sam Edwards, Jerry Van Dyke, J. Pat O ' Malley, Johnny Whitaker, Jesse White, Al Lewis, Gordon Jump, Bernie Kopell, Len Lesser, Bob Hastings, Don Keefer, Don Porter, Alan Hale Jr., Melody Patterson, Rusty Hamer, Regis Toomey, Heather North, Allan Melvin, Parley Baer, Jack Bannon, Rick Lenz, Karen Valentine among many others.

The first example of this subgenre was Melvin Van Peebles ' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and others are Black Caesar, Black Devil Doll, Blacula, Black Shampoo, Boss Nigger, Coffy, Coonskin, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Dolemite, Foxy Brown, Hell Up in Harlem, The Mack, Mandingo, Shaft, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Sugar Hill, Super Fly, The Thing With Two Heads and Truck Turner.

* Melvin Van Peebles

He is the son of filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles.

Van Peebles was born Mario Cain Van Peebles in Mexico City, Mexico, the son of writer, director and actor Melvin Van Peebles and German actress and photographer Maria Marx.

Melvin Van Peebles, the father of director Mario Van Peebles, recorded a new song, " Cruel Jim Crow ", for the film, his first music recording in 20 years, after his 1974 album What the .... You Mean I Can't Sing ?!.

Like many other subsequent acts the duo produced, which included Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and The O ' Jays, The Intruders had already developed a vocal sound that was both theirs and uniquely Philadelphian.

York claimed to have recorded as a singer with such acts as Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, The Delfonics, McFadden & Whitehead, and Evelyn ‘ Champagne ’ King.

*( 1980 ) Canada Vignettes: Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian as writer and narrator

* In James L. Brooks ' 1997 romantic comedy film As Good As It Gets, the main character, obsessive-compulsive misanthrope Melvin Udall, also played by Jack Nicholson, wears brown leather driving gloves in several scenes.

The gillaroo ( Salmo stomachius ), a richly colored species of trout found in the Irish lake, lough Melvin in County Fermanagh, has a gizzard which is used to aid the digestion of water snails, the main component of its diet.

In 1998 he starred as Cisco, the counterpart of the main character Melvin Smiley ( played by Mark Wahlberg ), in the comedy-action movie The Big Hit.

The band were invited by Melvin Benn, the owner of the festival to headline the first day of the main stage, before turning down the offer as they did not want to play such a high-placed slot so soon after Jon's death, so requested to play a much more low-key slot headlining the second stage.

Melle Mel (; born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961 ), also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Superscripts denote main lead singers for each track: ( a ) David Ruffin, ( b ) Eddie Kendricks, ( c ) Paul Williams, ( d ) Melvin Franklin, ( e ) Otis Williams, ( f ) Temptations ensemble.

Currie has had many famous characters of the past such as Mike Maher, Melvin Shreier, Ken Gleason & John Ruppert to name a few.

The party finds Melvin, who joins their adventure, although his age and unfamiliarity with the present day often leave other characters somewhat befuddled.

The Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard " Ringo " Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who have recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files.

Either as part of the games or features, peripheral characters, usually played by Dave Chapman, Ian Kirkby or Melvin Odoom, often appeared on a regular basis.

In the Raymond Newsreader sketches, Bungalow regulars such as Melvin O Doom were invited to discuss the severity of the situation ( relating to the cartoons ) and often cartoon characters ' self-proclaimed biggest fans would make an appearance.

* Melvin Odoom, a breakdancer and a regular extra who played many characters and was referred to by Dick and Dom as " tomorrows star ".

Eight films have been made in total, though in the last three the gang leader character has been replaced by the following characters, in order ; " Doctor Max Adrian Busé ", " Herman Melvin " and " Sven-Ingvar ' Sivan ' Jönsson ".

The characters of Melvin and his father Jacob are similar in many respects to those of Douglas and Mr. Bridge.

The general storyline was simultaneously overhauled to provide Audrey with supporting characters such as Melvin Wisenheimer, her ugly, prankish arch-rival, and Tiny, a young black boy.

In an episode of Boston Legal, was sung as a duet between the 2 characters Edwin Poole and Attorney Melvin Palmer at a piano.