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name: "Richard Wesley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-wesley"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "11 July 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T09:23:21.354730+00:00"
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# Richard Wesley

Writer. Born 11 July 1945 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 July 1945, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wesley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7329896, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921759/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/994146

## Biography

Richard Wesley is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born on 11 July 1945 in Newark, New Jersey, he studied playwriting at Howard University, graduating in 1967.

His early plays include *The Black Terror* (1971), which won a Drama Desk Award, and *The Mighty Gents* (1978), which had a Broadway run. He wrote the screenplay for the 1974 film *Uptown Saturday Night*, starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Wesley has also written teleplays for television films including *Murder Without Motive* (1992) and *Mandela and De Klerk* (1997), and contributed to the anthology series *Fallen Angels* (1993). He is an associate professor and former chair of dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

*Sources: ibdb.com, tisch.nyu.edu, imdb.com, concordtheatricals.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fallen Angels* (1993), Fi1m 72, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/fallen-angels-1993.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Black Terror* (2023), Writer
- *Deacons for Defense* (2005), Writer
- *Bojangles* (2001), Screenplay
- *100 Centre Street* (2001), series, Writer
- *Mandela and de Klerk* (1997), Screenplay
- *Fallen Angels* (1993), series, Teleplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/fallen-angels-1993.md)
- *Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story* (1992), Writer
- *Native Son* (1986), as Bartender · Screenplay
- *Fast Forward* (1985), Screenplay
- *The House of Dies Drear* (1984), Writer
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Screenplay
- *Let's Do It Again* (1975), Screenplay
- *Uptown Saturday Night* (1974), Writer

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