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Samuel Leroy Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on December 21, 1948, [13] the only child of Elizabeth Harriett (née Montgomery) and Roy Henry Jackson. [14][15] He grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [13][16] His father lived away from the family in Kansas City, Missouri, and later died of alcoholism. Jackson met him only twice during his ...
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 German - American documentary film and social critique film essay directed by Raoul Peck, [3] based on James Baldwin 's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders ...
Civil War (song) " Civil War " is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses that originally appeared on the 1990 compilation Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal and later on the band's 1991 album Use Your Illusion II. It is a protest song on war, referring to all war as "civil war" and stating that war only "feeds the rich while it buries ...
Budget. $20 million. Box office. $5.7 million. One Eight Seven (also known as 187) is a 1997 American crime drama thriller film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was the first top-billed starring role for Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. It also has John Heard, Kelly Rowan and ...
Jackson at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con. Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and film producer. A highly-prolific actor who starred in over 150 film roles to date, Jackson's films have collectively grossed over $27 billion, making him the highest-grossing live-action actor of all time as of 2021. [1] [note 1]
The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight dubious strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover some time after the American Civil War.
The " Battle Hymn of the Republic " is an American patriotic song written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War. Howe adapted her song from the soldiers' song "John Brown's Body" in November 1861, and sold it for $4 to The Atlantic Monthly [1] in February 1862.
A Time to Kill is a 1996 American legal drama film based on John Grisham 's 1989 novel of the same name. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star, with Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appearing in supporting roles and Octavia Spencer in her film debut. The film received mixed reviews but was a commercial ...