Claudia McNeil
Birthday: Born in 1917-08-13 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Deathday: 1993-11-25
Claudia McNeil was an American actress known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun. She later appeared in a 1981 production of the musical version of the play, Raisin presented by Equity Library Theater.
TV Credits
The Nurses
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The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called The Nurses, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967....
The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia....
DuPont Show of the Month
Character: Bernice Sadie Brown
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on ...
Roots: The Next Generations
Character: Sister Will Ada
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Character: Big Ma
A three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression....
Movie Credits
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Character: Sojourner Truth
Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries....
There Was a Crooked Man...
Character: Madam
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him....
A Raisin in the Sun
Character: Lena Younger
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall....
Moon of the Wolf
Character: Sara
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf....
Black Girl
Character: Mu' Dear
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter....
The Last Angry Man
Character: Mrs. Quincy
Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it draws the attention of a producer, Woodrow Thrasher, who believes Dr. Abelman a good candidate for a TV show. The doctor, however, is suspicious of the whole enterprise, thinking both Myron and Thrasher are simply out to make a fast buck....
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Character: Big Ma
1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978....
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Character: Josepha
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world....
Cry Panic
Character: Ethel Hanson
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim....
Incident in San Francisco
Character: Odessa Carter
A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him....
Poitier's Walter Lee
Character: Self (archive footage)
An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited....
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries....
The Migrants
Character: Rose Daw
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family....