- unitid
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{"value"=>"21072", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 603", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b22257927", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1992-1997", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1992/1997"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Delroy Lindo screenplay collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.42 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lindo, Delroy", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The son of Jamaican parents, Delroy Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, United Kingdom, until his teens when he and his mother, a nurse, moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Later, they moved to the United States, where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. After graduation, Lindo landed his first film role, that of an Army sergeant in <span class=\"title\">More American Graffiti</span> (1979). However, he did not appear in another film for ten years. In the meantime, Lindo worked on stage and, in 1982, debuted on Broadway in <span class=\"title\">Master Harold and the Boys</span> directed by the play's author, Athol Fugard. In 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Harald Loomis in <span class=\"title\">Joe Turner's Come and Gone</span>. Director Spike Lee provided the boost Lindo's career needed. The director cast him as patriarch Woody Carmichael in Lee's semi-autobiographical comedy <span class=\"title\">Crooklyn</span> (1994).</p> <p>For Lindo, 1996 was a big year. He landed major supporting roles in six features, including a heavy in Barry Sonnenfeld's <span class=\"title\">Get Shorty</span> (1995), another villainous supporting role in Lee's <span class=\"title\">Clockers</span> (1995), and still another bad guy in <span class=\"title\">Feeling Minnesota</span> (1996). Lest one believe that Lindo is typecast into forever playing drug lords and gangsters, that year he also played baseball player Leroy \"Satchel\" Paige in <span class=\"title\">Soul of the Game</span> (1996) (a.k.a. <span class=\"title\">Baseball in Black and White</span>), for which he won a NAACP Image Award nomination. Since then, the versatile Lindo has shown himself equally adept at playing characters on both sides of the law. In 1997, he played an angel opposite Holly Hunter in Danny Boyle's offbeat romantic fantasy <span class=\"title\">A Life Less Ordinary</span> (1997) and, in 2009, a vengeful cop in an episode of <span class=\"title\">Law and Order: Special Victims Unit</span> (1999).</p> <p>Lindo graduated from San Francisco State University in 2004 with a degree in Cinema.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists mostly of screenplays and television scripts, some of in which Delroy Lindo acted and others for which he possibly auditioned. Some scripts were written by Black writers (such as <span class=\"title\">America's Most Wanted</span> by Keenan Ivory Wayans) and others featured Black actors or Black directors (including <span class=\"title\">Kansas City</span> with Harry Belafonte, and <span class=\"title\">Clockers</span>, directed by Spike Lee); other scripts feature Black subjects, such as <span class=\"title\">Miss Evers Boys</span>.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged alphabetically by screenplay or teleplay author's name.</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_c7a8ea056eb5384fc1b71e107e5e203a", "value"=>"<p>IMDB. \"Delroy Lindo.\" Accessed June 4, 2020. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005148/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm.</p>"}
- date_start
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1992
- keydate
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1992
- date_end
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1997
- date_inclusive_start
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1992
- date_inclusive_end
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1997
- extent_statement
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0.42 linear feet (2 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Delroy Lindo screenplay collection, Sc MG 603, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>" This collection consists mostly of screenplays and television scripts, some of in which Delroy Lindo acted and others for which he possibly auditioned. Some scripts were written by Black writers (such as <span class=\"title\">America's Most Wanted</span> by Keenan Ivory Wayans) and others featured Black actors or Black directors (including <span class=\"title\">Kansas City</span> with Harry Belafonte, and <span class=\"title\">Clockers</span>, directed by Spike Lee); other scripts feature Black subjects, such as <span class=\"title\">Miss Evers Boys</span>.", "generated"=>true}