A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Paul Gladney
Birthplace:
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Born:
August 4, 1941
Died:
May 19, 2021
Paul Gladney, better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, was an American comedian, writer, social critic, and television and film actor. He is best known as a writer for comedian Richard Pryor, playing singer Sam Cooke in The Buddy Holly Story and Junebug in Bamboozled, and his appearances on Chappelle's Show.
Casting:
1977 The Richard Pryor Special?
Screenplay:
1977 The Richard Pryor Special?
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Story:
1977 The Richard Pryor Special?
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
2001 Call Me Claus
Writer:
1977 Freeman
1977 The Richard Pryor Special?
1979 Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
1983 Richard Pryor: Here and Now
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
2001 Call Me Claus
2002 Paul Mooney: Analyzing White America
2007 Paul Mooney: Know Your History - Jesus Is Black... So Was Cleopatra
2010 Paul Mooney: It's the End of the World
2012 Paul Mooney: The Godfather of Comedy
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.