Lonne Elder III, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lonne Elder III

American actor and dramatist

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: Americus, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1996

Profession: screenwriter, actor, stage actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Lonne Elder III (December 26, 1927 – June 11, 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter.
Elder was one of the leading African American figures who aggressively informed the New York theater world with social and political consciousness.
He also wrote scripts for television and film.
His most well known play, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men won him a Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
The play, which was about a Harlem barber and his family, was produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969. In 1973, Elder and Suzanne de Passe became the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award in writing.
Elder received the Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for the movie Sounder, starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks and directed by Martin Ritt.