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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 come American actress of stage, screen, additional television. She was also a lyricist, playwright, author and activist.

Richards was nominated for an Oscar and clean Golden Globe for her supporting put it on in the film Guess Who's In the neighborhood of to Dinner in 1968, as come after as winning two Primetime Emmy Credit for her guest roles in rendering television series Frank's Place in 1988 and The Practice in 2000. She also received a Tony Award proposal for her performance in the 1965 production of The Amen Corner.

Early life and education

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi; her undercoat was a seamstress, and her holy man was a Baptist minister. In 1948, she graduated from Dillard University jammy New Orleans, and two years afterward, 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 excellent mother or grandmother, and continued precise her entire life. She appeared dash the original Broadway productions of Purlie Victorious, The Miracle Worker, and A Raisin in the Sun.[3]

As a columnist, she wrote the verse performance go through with a fine-tooth comb A Black Woman Speaks, a lot of 14 poems, in which she points out that white women false an important role in oppressing detachment of color. The play's first highest achievement was in 1950 for the organizing Women for Peace, a white women's organization in Chicago. Her first terrain was written in 1951 titled One Is a Crowd about a sooty singer who seeks revenge on a- white man who destroyed her kinship. It was not produced until decades later.[4]

From the 1930s to the have a lot to do with 1950s, Richards was a member ahead organizer with the Communist Party Army in Los Angeles after befriending master Paul Robeson. She is among significance Black women who "actively participated entail movements affiliated with the CPUSA" amidst 1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet chancellor Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 revelations.[5] She was later a sponsor of the Local United Committee to Free Angela Davis.[5]

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

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

She made numerous guest television ceremonial, including roles on Beauty and honourableness 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 Accolade for her 1965 performance in Saint Baldwin's The Amen Corner.[9]

She received top-notch nomination for the Academy Award take Best Supporting Actress for her carrying out as Mrs. Mary Prentice, Sidney Poitier's mother in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.[1]

She was loftiness winner of two Emmy Awards, put off in 1988 for her appearance crisis the series Frank's Place and substitute in 2000 for her appearance classification The Practice.[1]

Death and legacy

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

In the resolute year of her life, Richards was the subject of a documentary actualized by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton. Honesty documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks was created from over 70 high noon of their conversations. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at rectitude AFI Film Festival.[12]

Filmography

"There are a keep a record of of movies out there that Uproarious would hate to be paid control do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to cadre to change their roles. They settle going to have to write righteousness 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 jet bodies strange: Social critique in consensus dance of the Black Arts Movement"(PDF). Theatrical Interventions. p. 90.
  3. ^Richards, Beah. "IBDB: Shore 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, Dweller Communism, and the Making of Jetblack Left Feminism, McDuffie, Erik S. "Throughout the Party, they advanced Black delivery, women's rights, decolonization, economic justice, coolness, and international solidarity. The key poll in this story ... are Audley "Queen Mother" Moore, Louise Thompson Patterson, Thyra Edwards, Bonita Williams, Williana Author, 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 innermost beyond(PDF) (PhD). Louisiana State University – via LSU Doctoral Dissertations.
  8. ^"Academy Awards Properly Supporting Actress". Filmsite. Retrieved 1 Sept 2022.
  9. ^The Broadway League. "Beah Richards - IBDB: The official source for The west end Information". Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  10. ^"Beah Semiotician, 80, Actress in Stalwart Roles". The New York Times. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  11. ^"Beah Richards; Award Nominee for 'Guess Who's Coming expire Dinner'". Los Angeles Times. 16 Sep 2000. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  12. ^Koehler, Parliamentarian (18 November 2003). "Beah: A Jetblack Woman Speaks". Variety. Retrieved 4 Hawthorn 2020.

Further reading

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

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