Gerald Early
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Gerald Lyn Early is an American essayist and American culture critic, appearing and serving as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War, and Muhammad Ali. Currently, Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African-American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. L...
Known For
Baseball
Self
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Self
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Self - writer
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Self - Writer
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self - Writer / Historian
Jackie Robinson
Self
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self - Cultural Historian
Filmography
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
as Self
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
as Self - Writer
Jackie Robinson
2016
as Self
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010
as Self
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
2008
as Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2005
as Self - writer
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001
as Self - Cultural Historian
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
as Self - Writer / Historian
Baseball
1994
as Self