Research Catalog

Title

Delroy Lindo screenplay collection.

Author

Lindo, Delroy

Publication

1992-1997.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

0.42 linear feet (2 boxes)

Summary

This collection consists mostly of screenplays and television scripts, some of in which Delroy Lindo acted and others for which he possibly auditioned. Some scripts were written by Black writers (such as "America's Most Wanted" by Keenan Ivory Wayans) and others featured Black actors or Black directors (including "Kansas City" with Harry Belafonte, and "Clockers", directed by Spike Lee); other scripts feature Black subjects, such as "Miss Evers Boys".

Subjects

• African American motion picture producers and directors
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• Authors, Black
• screenplays

Genre/Form

screenplays.

Note

• The son of Jamaican parents, Delroy Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, United Kingdom, until his teens when he and his mother, a nurse, moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Later, they moved to the United States, where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. After graduation, Lindo landed his first film role, that of an Army sergeant in "More American Graffiti"(1979). However, he did not appear in another film for ten years. In the meantime, Lindo worked on stage and, in 1982, debuted on Broadway in "Master Harold and the Boys" directed by the play's author, Athol Fugard. In 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Harald Loomis in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone". Director Spike Lee provided the boost Lindo's career needed. The director cast him as patriarch Woody Carmichael in Lee's semi-autobiographical comedy "Crooklyn" (1994). For Lindo, 1996 was a big year. He landed major supporting roles in six features, including a heavy in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Get Shorty" (1995), another villainous supporting role in Lee's "Clockers"(1995), and still another bad guy in "Feeling Minnesota"(1996). Lest one believe that Lindo is typecast into forever playing drug lords and gangsters, that year he also played baseball player Leroy "Satchel" Paige in "Soul of the Game" (1996) (a.k.a."Baseball in Black and White"), for which he won a NAACP Image Award nomination. Since then, the versatile Lindo has shown himself equally adept at playing characters on both sides of the law. In 1997, he played an angel opposite Holly Hunter in Danny Boyle's offbeat romantic fantasy "A Life Less Ordinary" (1997) and, in 2009, a vengeful cop in an episode of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999). Lindo graduated from San Francisco State University in 2004 with a degree in Cinema.

Call Number

Sc MG 603

OCLC

1196034895

Author

Lindo, Delroy, creator.

Title

Delroy Lindo screenplay collection.

Production

1992-1997.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

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Finding aid

Research Call Number

Sc MG 603