2000Nominee
Best Performance
Road Trip
Wendell B. Harris Jr.
Actor · Director · Writer
March 5, 1954
Biography
Wendell B. Harris Jr. (born March 5, 1954), is a Juilliard and Interlochen-trained American filmmaker and actor. He is the writer, director and lead actor of Chameleon Street, which won the Grand Jury prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. Harris and Prismatic Images, a multi-award-winning film/video/audio production facility his family founded, went on to produce a radio series entitled Black Biography, which showcased black icons from the spheres of art, history, and politics. He has appeared as an actor in the films Out of Sight (1998) and Road Trip (2000).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1998Nominee
Best Performance
Out of Sight
1991Nominee
Best Director
Chameleon Street: The Black Film They Could Not Sell
Career Highlights
1991Highlight
Best Performance
Chameleon Street
1986Highlight
Best Director
Colette Vignette
Video
Road Trip
Out of Sight
Chameleon Street: The Black Film They Could Not Sell