Portrait of Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

Acting

Biography

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".

Born: August 31, 1935

Place of Birth: Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA

Filmography

2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

2001
A Huey P. Newton Story

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999
1996
All Power to the People!

as Self (archive footage)

1990
The FBI's War on Black America

as Self (archive footage)

1972
Malcolm X

as Self (archive footage)

1971
1 P.M.

as Self

1968