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Sam Greenlee (I) (1930–2014)

Sam Greenlee was born on July 30, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Samuel Elder Greenlee Jr. He was a writer and actor, known for The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973), The Spook Who Sat by the Door and Lisa Trotter (2010). He was married to Nienke Greenlee. He died on May 19, 2014 in Chicago. See full bio »

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(age 83) in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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 2010 Lisa Trotter (Short)
 1973 The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door") / (screenplay)
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 2009 Earthwork
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 1973 The Spook Who Sat by the Door (producer)
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 2014 Afraid of Dark (Documentary)
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Samuel Eldred Greenlee Jr. was born on July 13, 1930, in Chicago. His mother Desoree Alexander was a singer and dancer in the chorus line of the Regal Theatre. His father, Samuel Greenlee Sr, a railroad man and union activist, was of Native American descent (with a Seminole grandmother married to a Buffalo Soldier, an escapee from a slave plantation who fought in a "coloured" regiment at the end ... See more »

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