Biography
Dennis Watlington is an American writer, producer and actor. Born in 1952 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, he appeared as the cab driver in the film The Deer Hunter (1978).
Watlington has written for documentaries and television, including an episode of the series The Untold West (1993), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award. He wrote and produced In the Name of Democracy: America's Conscience, a Soldier's Sacrifice (2009) and the documentary Zahira: 'la que florece' (2004). He is the author of the memoir Chasing America: Notes from a Rock 'n' Soul Integrationist (2006).
His play Bullpen was performed in a reading at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, during the 1988–1989 season.
