Julian Mayfield

WriterActor
Born
June 6, 1928
Died
October 20, 1984

Julian Mayfield was an African-American novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and university professor from South Carolina. He took a job teaching at Cornell University in 1967, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1975 to 1978, and he was the…

Biography

Julian Mayfield was an African-American novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and university professor from South Carolina. He took a job teaching at Cornell University in 1967, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1975 to 1978, and he was the writer-in-residence at Howard University from 1978 until his death in 1984.

Mayfield has spend a few years working abroad during the 1970s. From 1971 until 1975, he worked for the Guyanese government of Forbes Burnham in its attempt to modernize the country. In 1976, Mayfield served as an expatriate teacher in both West Germany and Turkey. He met and married the Guyanese journalist and novelist Joan Cambridge while living in Guyana. The couple collaborated as writers of the novel "Murder on the East Bank", but the novel was never published.

Writer

The Long NightThe Long Night(1976)
UptightUptight(1968)

Actor

UptightUptight(1968)as Tank
Our Virgin IslandOur Virgin Island(1958)as Band Leader

Self

Black JournalBlack Journal(1968)as Self
Say It with Acting(1949)as Self - cast of 'Lost in the Stars'

Archive Footage

Neues aus der Welt des FilmsNeues aus der Welt des Films(1965)as Tank

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Credit Score: Julian Mayfield

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1957195819591960196119621963196419651966196719681969
Tank
Sat Dec 28 1968
#NameScoreYearWinNomKnownWinsNomsVotes
1Uptight3.7519687.3001294
2Our Virgin Island2.3819585.800179