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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Janet Angel MacLachlan
Janet Angel MacLachlan
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| Other authors / contributors: | MacLachlan, Janet, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2005 March 30.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Stage and film actress Janet Angel MacLachlan was born August 8, 1933 in Harlem, New York. MacLachlan attended PS 170. She graduated from Julia Richmond High School in 1950. She earned her B.S. degree in psychology from Hunter College in 1955 and studied acting at the Herbert Berghoff Acting Studio and the Little Theatre of Harlem. In 1961, MacLachlan was cast in The Blacks: A Clown Show while active in the Committee for the Employment of Negro Performers. At Universal Studios in 1964, MacLachlan appeared in over seventy-five television programs, including Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, The Sophisticated Gents, and The Tuskegee Airmen. Her films include: The Man, Sounder, and Black Listed. She starred in the PBS production Voices of Our People: In Celebration of Black Poetry. MacLachlan was Grant Committee chair of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. MacLachlan passed away on October 11, 2010 at age 77.
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