- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 12 min., 56 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Music executive and television actor Aki Aleong was born on December 19, 1934 in Trinidad. He attended Progressive Education Institute and Boys High School in Brooklyn and, in 1951, enrolled at Brooklyn College. In 1954, Aleong appeared in Teahouse of the August Moon on Broadway. Aleong was cast in Motorcycle Gang in 1957 and later performed in 200 television programs and thirty movies including: Never So Few (1959), The Hanoi Hilton (1987), Farewell to the King (1989), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Aleong wrote the hit songs "Trade Winds" and "Shombalor." In 1967, Aleong was hired by Capital Records. He produced Norman Connors' You are My Starship and HistoryMaker Roy Ayers' Red Black and Green. He served on the boards of the Screen Actors Guild and Media Action Network for Asian Americans and was the executive director of Asians in Media.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong
- Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208688
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
051256
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Culver City, California 2005 April 26.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Television Actor Music Executive.
- Added Author
Aleong, Aki, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.