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Clarence Williams est un Acteur, Réalisateur et Scénariste Américain né le 8 octobre 1893 à Louisiane (Etats-Unis)

Clarence Williams

Clarence Williams
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Nom de naissance Clarence Williams
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 8 octobre 1893 à Louisiane (Etats-Unis)
Mort 6 novembre 1965 (à 72 ans) à Queens (Etats-Unis)

Clarence Williams (October 8, 1893, or October 6, 1898 – November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.

Biographie

Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, ran away from home at age 12 to join Billy Kersand's Traveling Minstrel Show, then moved to New Orleans. At first Williams worked shining shoes and doing odd jobs, but soon became known as a singer and master of ceremonies. By the early 1910s he was a well regarded local entertainer also playing piano, and was composing new tunes by 1913. Williams was a good businessman and worked arranging and managing entertainment at the local African-American vaudeville theater as well as at various saloons and dance halls around Rampart Street, and at clubs and houses in Storyville.

Williams started a music publishing business with violinist/bandleader Armand J. Piron in 1915, which by the 1920s was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country. He toured briefly with W.C. Handy, set up a publishing office in Chicago, then settled in New York in the early 1920s. In 1921, he married blues singer and stage actress Eva Taylor, with whom he would frequently perform.

He was one of the primary pianists on scores of blues records recorded in New York during the 1920s. He supervised African-American recordings (the 8000 Race Series) for the New York offices of Okeh phonograph company in the 1920s in the Gaiety Theatre office building in Times Square. He recruited many of the artists who performed on that label. He also recorded extensively, leading studio bands frequently for OKeh, Columbia and occasionally other record labels.

He mostly used "Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings" for his hot band sides and "Clarence Williams' Washboard Five" for his washboard sides. He also produced and participated in early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Virginia Liston, Irene Scruggs, his niece Katherine Henderson, and many others. Two of his 1924 recording bands, "The Red Onion Jazz Babies" and "Clarence Williams' Blue Five" featured cornetist Armstrong and soprano saxophonist Bechet, two of the most important early jazz soloists, in their only recordings together before the 1940s. The rivalry between Armstrong and Bechet, who tried to outdo each other with successive solo breaks, is exemplified in "Cake Walkin' Babies from Home", the most celebrated of these performances, which survives in versions recorded by both bands. King Oliver played cornet on a number of Williams's late 1920s recordings. He was the recording director for the short-lived QRS Records label in 1928.

Most of his recordings were songs from his publishing house, which explains why he recorded tunes like "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "Close Fit Blues" and "Papa De-Da-Da" numerous times. Among his own compositions was "Shout, Sister, Shout" (1929), which was recorded by him, and also covered by the Boswell Sisters, in 1931.

In 1933, he signed to the Vocalion label and recorded quite a number of popular recordings, mostly featuring washboard percussion, through 1935.

In 1943, Williams sold his extensive back-catalogue of tunes to Decca Records for $50,000 and retired, but then bought a bargain used-goods store. Williams died in Queens, New York City in 1965, and was interred in Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. On her death in 1977, his wife, Eva Taylor, was interred next to him.

Clarence Williams is the grandfather of actor Clarence Williams III. His daughter Joy Williams (1931–1970) was a singer-actress under stage name Irene Williams.

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Filmographie de Clarence Williams (3 films)

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Le Majordome, 2h12
Réalisé par Lee Daniels
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Historique
Thèmes Politique, Le racisme, Le monde du travail, Politique, Maison-Blanche
Acteurs Alex Pettyfer, Forest Whitaker, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Lenny Kravitz, Alan Rickman
Rôle Maynard
Note72% 3.6015153.6015153.6015153.6015153.601515
Dans les années 1920, le jeune Cecil Gaines grandit avec ses parents afro-américains dans une plantation de coton à Macon dans l'État de Georgie. Un jour de récolte, sa mère est violée par le fils de la propriétaire des lieux, Thomas Westfall, et son père est tué sous ses yeux car il ose protester. Annabeth Westfall, la mère de Thomas, prend alors Cecil sous son aile et lui apprend à être domestique (« nègre de maison ») tout en lui apprenant à lire. Quelques années plus tard, Cecil comprend qu'il doit partir de la plantation car Thomas ne le laissera pas vivre une fois sa mère disparue.
The Immortals, 1h38
Réalisé par Richard Donner, Brian Grant
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Action, Policier
Thèmes Maladie, Transport, Automobile, Road movie, Film de poursuite, Sida
Acteurs Eric Roberts, Joe Pantoliano, Tia Carrere, Tony Curtis, Clarence Williams III, William Forsythe
Rôle Benny Hayes
Note54% 2.7055652.7055652.7055652.7055652.705565
À Los Angeles pendant la nuit d'halloween, Jack, patron d'un night-club, a mis au point un incroyable plan pour un braquage. Huit inconnus, d'origines et sexes différentes mais ayant tous un point en commun, devront voler au même moment des valises dans différents endroits de la ville. Dans ces quatre mallettes se trouve une grosse somme d'argent appartenant à un gangster. Chaque braqueurs prennent conscience pendant la soirée que le plan de Jack est totalement suicidaire.

Réalisateur

Murder In Harlem, 1h42
Réalisé par Oscar Micheaux, Clarence Williams
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Alice Burton Russell
Note50% 2.5341552.5341552.5341552.5341552.534155
An African-American man is framed of the murder of a white woman, but a white man is found to be responsible.

Scénariste

Murder In Harlem, 1h42
Réalisé par Oscar Micheaux, Clarence Williams
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Alice Burton Russell
Note50% 2.5341552.5341552.5341552.5341552.534155
An African-American man is framed of the murder of a white woman, but a white man is found to be responsible.