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name: "Charles Fuller"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 March 1939"
died: "3 October 2022"
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# Charles Fuller

Writer. Born 5 March 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 3 October 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 March 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 3 October 2022
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fuller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0298191/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1190481

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*A Soldier's Story*](https://film.one/film/a-soldiers-story.md) (76)

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## Biography

Charles Fuller was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 5 March 1939 and died in Toronto, Ontario, on 3 October 2022. He attended Villanova University and La Salle College, and served in the US Army from 1959 to 1962. In 1967 he co-founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia.

Fuller is best known for his play *A Soldier's Play* (1981), which won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He wrote the screenplay for the 1984 film adaptation *A Soldier's Story*, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and won an Edgar Award. Other stage works include *Zooman and the Sign* (1980) and *The Brownsville Raid* (1976). A 2020 Broadway revival of *A Soldier's Play* earned him a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Soldier's Story* (1984), Fi1m 76, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/a-soldiers-story.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Soldier's Play* (2021), Writer
- *March to Freedom* (1999), Actor
- *Love Songs* (1999), Writer, Producer
- *The Wall* (1998), Writer
- *Zooman* (1995), Theatre Play, Screenplay
- *A Gathering of Old Men* (1987), Screenplay
- *A Soldier's Story* (1984), Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/a-soldiers-story.md)
- *The Sky Is Gray* (1980), Teleplay
- *More Than Friends* (1915), as The Rival Secret Service Man

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1985: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *A Soldier's Story*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Edgar Awards 1985: Edgar Awards (won)
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1982: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *A Soldier's Play*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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