Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. In 2008, Van Peebles completed the film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha, which was the Closing Night selection for Maryland Film Festival 2008, and appeared on All My Children as Melvin Woods, the father of Samuel Woods, a character portrayed by his son, Mario.

  2. Oct 1, 2021 · His father, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, died last week at age 89. After a break, we remember Bishop John Shelby Spong, who championed the acceptance of women and LGBTQ people in the clergy. This ...

    • Terry Gross
  3. Sep 25, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles, a trailblazing Black filmmaker best known for 1971’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song, died on Tuesday at the age of 89. Here, one of his sons, Mario Van Peebles, a noted ...

  4. May 17, 2021 · As Melvin Van Peebles' early work is restored and re-released for a new generation, Mario Van Peebles reflects on his father's legacy. By Tambay Obenson. May 17, 2021 1:30 pm. Harry Baird in "The ...

    • Tambay Obenson
  5. Sep 22, 2021 · He was 89. His family said in a statement that Van Peebles, father of the actor-director Mario Van Peebles, died Tuesday evening at his home in Manhattan. Melvin van Peebles poses next to the ...

  6. Sep 23, 2021 · Melvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died.He was 89. "Dad knew that Black images matter ...

  7. People also ask

  8. Sep 22, 2021 · In 2004, Mario Van Peebles played his father in a movie about the making of “Sweet Sweetback’s” called “Baadasssss!” Melvin Van Peebles makes a Chicago appearance with son Mario in 2004 ...