4 Little Girls 1997 premiere
by magicmikepeaches | created - 13 Mar 2022 | updated - 18 Oct 2022 | PublicWednesday June 25th, Directors Guild of America Theater 110 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
1. Maxine McNair
Self | 4 Little Girls
Maxine McNair was born on July 29, 1928 in the USA. She was married to Christopher McNair. She died on January 2, 2022 in Alabama, USA.
3. Helen Pegues
Self | 4 Little Girls
4. Queen Nunn
Self | 4 Little Girls
5. Arthur Hanes Jr.
Self | 4 Little Girls
7. Harold McNair
Self | 4 Little Girls
8. Carole C. Smitherman
Self | 4 Little Girls
9. Wamo Reed Robertson
Self | 4 Little Girls
10. Dianne Braddock
Self | 4 Little Girls
11. Carolyn Lee Brown
Self | 4 Little Girls
12. Alpha Robertson
Self | 4 Little Girls
Alpha Robertson was born on March 2, 1919 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was married to Alvin Robertson. She died on August 11, 2002 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
13. Wyatt Tee Walker
Actor | Malcolm X
Wyatt Tee Walker was born on August 16, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Malcolm X (1992), 4 Little Girls (1997) and Committee on UnAmerican Activities (1962). He was married to Theresa Ann Edwards. He died on January 23, 2018 in Chester, Virginia, USA.
14. Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Self | I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth was born on March 18, 1922 in Mount Meigs, Alabama, USA. He was married to Sephira Bailey and Ruby Keeler. He died on October 5, 2011 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
15. Florence Terrell
Self | 4 Little Girls
16. Gwendolyn White
Self | 4 Little Girls
17. Doris Lockhart
Self | 4 Little Girls
18. Gerald Colbert
Self | 4 Little Girls
19. Freeman Hrabowski III
Self | 4 Little Girls
President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County May 1992-present.
20. Shirley Wesley King
Self | 4 Little Girls
22. David J. Vann
Self | 4 Little Girls
David J. Vann was born on August 10, 1928 in Roanoke, Alabama, USA. He died on June 9, 2000.
23. Bill Baxley
Self | 4 Little Girls
Bill Baxley was born on June 27, 1941 in Dothan, Alabama, USA.
24. Andrew Young
Producer | Fandango at the Wall
Andrew Young is a prominent civil rights leader and politician. He first became a minister within the United Churches of Christ in the 1950s. Early in his career he studied Gandhi's methods of nonviolent resistance. Young became involved in voter registration drives within the civil rights movement...
25. Taylor Branch
Producer | King in the Wilderness
Taylor Branch is known for King In The Wilderness (2018), America: In the King Years and Blind Ambition (1979).
26. Nadean S. Williams
Self | 4 Little Girls
27. Janie Gaines
Self | 4 Little Girls
28. Rhonda Nunn Thomas
Self | 4 Little Girls
29. James Bevel
Self | 4 Little Girls
James Bevel was born on October 19, 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA. He died on December 19, 2008 in Springfield, Virginia, USA.
30. Tommy Wrenn
Self | 4 Little Girls
31. Nicholas Katzenbach
Self | Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Nicholas Katzenbach was born on January 17, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Lydia King Phelps Stokes. He died on May 8, 2012 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
32. Billie Harris
Self | 4 Little Girls
33. Ricky Powell
Self | 4 Little Girls
35. Ossie Davis
Actor | Do the Right Thing
Ossie Davis was born on December 18, 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Do the Right Thing (1989), Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). He was married to Ruby Dee. He died on February 4, 2005 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
36. Barbara Nunn
Self | 4 Little Girls
37. John Cross
Self | 4 Little Girls
John Cross was born on January 27, 1925 in Haynes, Arkansas, USA. He was married to Julia A. Ball. He died on November 15, 2007 in Lithonia, Georgia, USA.
38. Barbara Cross
Self | 4 Little Girls
39. Morris Marshall
Self | 4 Little Girls
40. Junie Collins
Self | 4 Little Girls
42. Faye Davis
Actress | Klepto
Faye Davis is known for Klepto, These Streets We Haunt (2021) and Burn (2016).
43. Coretta Scott King
Self | Nationtime - Gary
Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Marion, Alabama, USA. She was married to Martin Luther King. She died on January 30, 2006 in Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico.
44. Walter Cronkite
Actor | Liberty's Kids
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Helen Lena (Fritsche) and Walter Leland Cronkite, a doctor. Throughout his early career, Cronkite worked with newspapers. During World War II, he served as a news reporter. In 1950, Cronkite became a journalist. He ...
45. Bill Cosby
Actor | The Cosby Show
Bill Cosby is one of the world's most well-known entertainers and comedians. William Henry Cosby, Jr. was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Anna Pearl (Hite), a maid and William Henry Cosby, Sr., a U.S. Navy sailor. After 10th grade, Cosby joined the Navy and completed high ...
46. Jesse Jackson
Producer | S.O.S. - Saving Our Schools
Jesse Jackson was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for S.O.S. - Saving Our Schools (2015), Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995) and Wannabe: The Peter Putrid Story (2003). He has been married to Jacqueline L. Jackson ...
47. Reggie White
Actor | Touched by an Angel
Reginald Howard White was born on December 19, 1961 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was born to unmarried parents, Charles White and Thelma Dodd Collier. He was raised by his mother until age eight when he was placed with his grandmother, Mildred Dodd.
At Howard High School, Reggie lettered in ...
48. Spike Lee
Director | Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...
49. Mark Breland
Actor | Summer of Sam
Mark Breland was born on May 11, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Summer of Sam (1999), He Got Game (1998) and Miami Vice (1984).
50. Rolonda Watts
Actress | The Stupids
Rolonda Watts is a journalist, talk show host, actor, producer, writer, and voice-over talent.
Her name, face, and now even her distinctive voice are known by audiences everywhere, thanks to her work in radio, television, and film. Most viewers know Rolonda Watts from her internationally syndicated ...
51. Walter Mosley
Producer | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Walter Mosley was born on January 12, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022), Snowfall (2017) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995).
52. Cassandra Wilson
Soundtrack | The Score
Cassandra Wilson was born on December 4, 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Score (2001), Junior (1994) and My Blueberry Nights (2007). She was previously married to Isaach De Bankolé.
53. Tonya Lewis Lee
Producer | Aftershock
Tonya Lewis Lee was born on March 15, 1966 in the USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Aftershock (2022), Mistress of Modernism and The Watsons Go to Birmingham (2013). She has been married to Spike Lee since October 2, 1993. They have two children.
54. Isaac Hayes
Actor | Escape from New York
Isaac Hayes, the second-born child of Eula and Isaac Hayes Sr., was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wade Sr. The child of a poor family, he grew up picking cotton in Covington, Tennessee. He dropped out of high school, but later his former high-school teachers to get his diploma, ...
55. Billy Crystal
Actor | Forget Paris
Billy Crystal was born on March 14, 1948 in Manhattan, New York, and was raised on Long Island. He is the youngest of three sons born to Helen (Gabler) and Jack Crystal. His father was a well-known concert promoter who co-founded Commodore Records and his mother was a homemaker. His family were ...
56. Aaliyah
Soundtrack | Romeo Must Die
Talented. Beautiful. Modest. These three words described R&B singer-turned-actress Aaliyah perfectly.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Diane (Hankerson) and Michael Haughton. Her uncle was music manager Barry Hankerson and her brother is director Rashad Haughton. Aaliyah was ...
57. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
58. David LeRoy Anderson
Make_up_department | Men in Black
David LeRoy Anderson is known for Men in Black (1997), The Nutty Professor (1996) and The Cabin in the Woods (2011). He has been married to Heather Langenkamp since March 24, 1990. They have two children.
59. Rick Baker
Make_up_department | Planet of the Apes
Rick Baker was born on December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Planet of the Apes (2001), Men in Black (1997) and The Wolfman (2010). He has been married to Silvia Abascal since November 8, 1987. They have two children. He was previously married to Elaine Alexander.
60. Alec Baldwin
Actor | The Departed
Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...
61. Anne Bancroft
Actress | The Graduate
Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...
62. Antonio Banderas
Actor | The Mask of Zorro
Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.
He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...
63. Drew Barrymore
Producer | Charlie's Angels
Since melting audiences' hearts at the tender age of six - in Steven Spielberg's beloved sci-fi blockbuster, E.T. (1982) - Drew Barrymore has emerged as one of the most endearing and talented actresses of her generation. Born in Culver City, California to actors John Drew Barrymore and Jaid ...
64. Kim Basinger
Actress | L.A. Confidential
Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a ...
65. Kathy Bates
Actress | Misery
Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...
66. Warren Beatty
Actor | Heaven Can Wait
Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...
67. Tom Bellfort
Sound_department | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Tom Bellfort is known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Titanic (1997) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).
68. Halle Berry
Actress | Catwoman
Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. ...
69. Michael Bolton
Soundtrack | Back to School
Michael Bolton, the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and social activist, has sold more than 65 million albums and singles worldwide. He continues to tour the world every year, all while writing, recording and taping for a wide array of projects spanning music, film, television and ...
70. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
71. Christopher Boyes
Sound_department | Avatar
Christopher Boyes is known for Avatar (2009), King Kong (2005) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
72. James L. Brooks
Writer | Broadcast News
James L. Brooks was born on May 9, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Terms of Endearment (1983). He was previously married to Holly Holmberg Brooks and Marianne Catherine Morrissey.
73. Conrad Buff IV
Editor | Titanic
Conrad Buff IV was born on July 8, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an editor, known for Titanic (1997), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and The Abyss (1989).
74. Ellen Burstyn
Actress | Requiem for a Dream
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...
75. James Cameron
Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water
James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...
76. Neve Campbell
Actress | Scream
Neve Campbell was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, to Marnie (Neve), a Dutch-born psychologist and yoga instructor (from Amsterdam), and Gerry Campbell, a Scottish-born teacher (from Glasgow). Campbell first came to our TV screens in the hit Drama series Party of Five (1994). Described as TV's ...
77. Russell Carpenter
Cinematographer | Avatar: The Way of Water
Russell Carpenter was born on December 9, 1950 in Van Nuys, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), Titanic (1997) and Ant-Man (2015).
78. George Chakiris
Actor | West Side Story
George Chakiris made his film debut at the age of 12 singing in the chorus of Song of Love (1947). Following his graduation from high school, he supported his night-time dancing, singing and dramatic lessons with a daytime job clerking in a Los Angeles department store. Later he started his acting/...
79. Cher
Actress | Moonstruck
The beat goes on ... and on ... and as strong as ever for this superstar entertainer who has well surpassed the half-century mark while improbably transforming herself from an artificial, glossy "flashionplate" singer into a serious, Oscar-worthy, dramatic actress ... and back again! With more ups ...
80. Julie Christie
Actress | Doctor Zhivago
Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...
81. Bill Conti
Soundtrack | Rocky
Bill Conti was born on April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Rocky (1976), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). He is married to Shelby Cox. They have two children.
82. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
83. Joan Cusack
Actress | In & Out
Actress Joan Cusack was born on October 11, 1962 in New York City and is the daughter of Nancy (née Carolan) and Dick Cusack. Her father was an advertising executive, writer and actor, and her mother was a mathematics teacher. Her siblings - Susie Cusack, John Cusack, Ann Cusack and Bill Cusack are...
84. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
85. Geena Davis
Actress | Thelma & Louise
As a child, Geena dreamed of being an actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self-esteem because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high school graduation, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire and then transferred the next year to Boston ...
86. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
87. Roger Deakins
Cinematographer | Blade Runner 2049
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins' first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (...
88. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
89. Donna Dewey
Producer | Skills Like This
Donna Dewey is known for Skills Like This (2007), A Story of Healing (1997) and Looking for Sunday (2006).
90. Cameron Diaz
Actress | Vanilla Sky
Cameron Diaz, an American actress, was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and a German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, ...
91. Matt Dillon
Actor | Crash
Matt Dillon's successful film career has spanned over three decades and has showcased his wide range of dramatic and comedic talents. Dillon displayed his versatility with an arresting performance co-starring as a racist cop in the critically acclaimed Paul Haggis film Crash. This role earned him ...
92. Céline Dion
Soundtrack | Titanic
Hailing from the small town of Charlemagne, Québec, Céline Dion has become one of the all-time greatest singers. Céline was born in 1968, the youngest of 14 children. Early in childhood, she sang with her siblings in a small club owned by her parents. From these early experiences, Céline gained the...
93. Chris Donahue
Producer | Longmire
Chris Donahue is known for Longmire (2012), Visas and Virtue (1997) and Independent Lens (1999).
94. Stanley Donen
Director | Charade
Inspired by Fred Astaire's dancing in Flying Down to Rio (1933), Stanley Donen (pronounced 'Dawn-en') attended dance classes from the age of ten. He later recalled that the only thing he wanted to be was a tap dancer.
He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Helen Pauline (Cohen) and Mordecai ...
95. Minnie Driver
Actress | Circle of Friends
Minnie Driver was born January 31, 1970 in London and raised in Barbados until she was seven. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Driver, was a businessman. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress while he was still married ...
96. Anne Dudley
Composer | The Crying Game
English composer and pop musician. Was a prominent member of the synthpop band The Art of Noise. Now, a critically acclaimed composer. Won an Oscar for Best Original Music or Comedy Score for work in The Full Monty (1997). Since has composed music for more than forty films, including: The Crying ...
97. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
98. Daniel Ezralow
Daniel Ezralow is known for Love & Other Drugs (2010), Across the Universe (2007) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). He has been married to Arabella Holzbog since July 11, 1999. They have two children.
99. Pablo Ferro
Not all of our most important filmmakers are the most well-known. Hailed as a genius by Stanley Kubrick and described by Jonathan Demme as "the best designer of film titles in the country today," Pablo Ferro has distinguished himself in film for more than three decades as a director, editor and ...
100. Thomas L. Fisher
Special_effects | Titanic
Thomas L. Fisher is known for Titanic (1997), True Lies (1994) and Total Recall (1990).
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