Frederick Douglass: An American Life

"This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass."

Cast

Hugh Morgan

as Frederick Douglass

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney

as Anna Douglass

Ebony Jo-Ann

as Harriet Tubman

Stephanie Berry

as Rosetta Douglass

Janet Ellis

as Julia Griffith

Lee Moore

as John Brown

William Curtis

as William Lloyd Garrison

Jacqueline Scates

as Helen Pitts Douglass

R.A. Montgomery

as Frederick (Young Man)

Don Plumley

as Hern

Charles Reid

as Abraham Lincoln

Daniel Wooten Jr.

as Frederick (Little Boy)

Crew

Louise Archambault

Co-Producer

Myrna Colley-Lee

Costume Design

William Greaves

Producer

Dwight Williams

Co-Producer

William Greaves

Editor

David Greaves

Sound Editor

Alonzo Speight

Editor

Juliana Wang

Director of Photography

Tyra Walker

Technical Advisor

Jay Pearlman

Makeup Artist

Tim Radford

Executive Producer

Kevin Board

Makeup Artist

Dickson J. Preston

Researcher

Jane Chandler

Technical Advisor

Pam West

Technical Advisor

William Greaves

Director

William Greaves

Writer

Harry Caldwell

Production Manager

Rick Dior

Sound Mixer

Blair Hubbard

Sound Mixer

Louanne Gillaland

Art Direction

Marilyn Nickels

Technical Advisor

Stanley Nelson

Sound Recordist

Benjamin Quarles

Researcher

Charles Blackwell

Assistant Camera

John Dandre

Sound Editor

Lou Potter

Writer

John Blassingame

Researcher