SAG-Aftra has started the month of Black History by launching the fourth season of the Legacy Collection, a series of more than 200 unprecedented time.
This season focuses on black film and television actors – starting with the late Bill Walker, whose career has spanned nearly 50 years and more than 100 films and TV shows, including “The Killers”, “The Long Hot Summer” and “Man Flint” Remember that the priest Sykes, who urges the scout, nicknamed Jean -Louise to “stand, pass your father” while Vinch Gregory Beck leaves the courtroom near the end of “to kill the emulator”? This is a Walker at work.
The veteran actor, who was also served as the Board of Directors of the Actors Syndicate on the screen from 1952 to 1971 (only the third black person who does this), was interviewed about his life and professional life only seven weeks before his death in January 1992. He is 95 years old Walker, frankly, tells his journey from a small town of Indiana (where he was the only black student who graduated from a white high school) to work on Hollywood silver and fighting for a better representation of black actors.
In an hour-long interview, Walker discusses the most prominent in his career-in that work in “Light Leaf” in 1950 with Gary Cooper, who Walker called “the best shook hands with him ever”-low ablution-like the time that He was accused of being a communist at the SAG board meeting.
Walker also shared the words of wisdom from his grandmother, who was a slave, learned to live with him. “There is fear and greed and all there is, but do not wander around the world with all your grip, because after that you cannot enter,” Jeddah Walker, who was a slave, told him when he got out of high school. “This is the message that I would like to leave with the world:” Change your fist. “
Starting in the late 1940s, diverse The profession was covered, with early signals in the lists of actors and films such as “No Way Out” (with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis) and “Harlem Globetrotters” (with Dorothy Dandridge). His first remembrance came in 1952, when he fell a distinguished role in “Mississippi Gambler”.
Walker’s obituary was published in the January 28 edition of Daily Variety and included re -narration of events on May 7, 1953, when he gave a speech to urge Hollywood producers to employ more black actors and for the same blacks on the screen.
With his colleague, a member of the Board of Directors of SAG Ronald Reagan to his side, Walker spoke on behalf of the union, who “decided that the time has come to stop actors” throwing in a wide range of roles from the role of the usual servants and maid who allocated them, including “unspecified Negro roles”, Which is thrown into all scenes of crowds and background, and finally, “The appropriate photography of the role of Negroes in American history.”
At the meeting, Walker told the producers: “No one can, not sweat, walk alone successfully. Do not take the jobs that Negroes now have in the pictures. But giving him more job opportunities so that we can join you in the march towards better pictures and more honesty and nets The biggest tickets.
The obituary (and the conversation of the SAG-Aftra), Walker Walker his battle for inclusion and fairness for the rest of his life.
The Black History-Time-TIMED of the Legacy Collection is a six-week series consisting of 12 episodes, released on the YouTube channel of Sag-Aftra every Monday and Thursday. The interviews are available with Walker, Janet Maclachlan and James Avery currently, with a phylicia rashad interview for the first time on Thursday. February 6.
The remaining interviews will be released as follows:
Monday, February 10: Eriq The Room (Filled 5/8/2003)
Thursday, February 13: Derek Locke (filmed 11/27/2006)
Monday, February 17: Braugher is another (filmed 1/15/2002)
Thursday, February 20: Lauren Tucson (filmed on 12/16/2012)
Mon. , February 24: Djimon Hounsou (Filled 1/8/2004)
Thursday, February 27: Sophie Occino (filmed 1/12/2005)
Mon. March 3: Blair Andrewwood (photographed 6/3/2008)
Thursday, March 6: Mario and Melvin Van Bebsip (filmed 4/7/2004)
The Legacy Group was launched in 2024 as an expansion in the continuous “SAG-Aftra” series of “talks”, which features in-depth discussions and a retrospective effect with the witnessed actors. The program dates back to more than 40 years when the opening episode was recorded with actor Henry Fonda (on December 15, 1979), but many of these talks were not available until last year.
“Ten years ago, we started a major project to preserve, support and support this group, which was 35 years ago, was registered on a variety of different formats.” “In 2014, we started digitizing these old talks,” said Rothshel Rose, the National Director of SAG-Aftra, to Variety’s Jenelle Riley at all. “Helen Mirin says,” only here (at SAG-Aftra) you have a real history of acting-it is through these conversations. “
The first season, “Amy winners” appeared, episodes with Robert Duffal, Viola Davis, Henry Winkener, Jessica Walter, Peter Denclage, Doris Roberts, S. .
The second season, “symbols” included conversations with classic Hollywood legends such as Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin, Charlton Heston, Ernest Borginine, Ralph Bellamy, ROD Steiger, Dennis Hopper, Kathleen Freeman, Norman Lloyd, TipPi Hedren, Farrah Fawcett, Jan and David Karadin.
The third season, “Oscar winners”, Fonda, Forest Whitaker, Rita Moreno, Shirley McLeen, Marley Mattelin, Michael Kane, Cathy Bates, Cliff Robertson, Mary Stinburgen, Ben Kingsley, Ellen Borsin and Crystofer Washing.
