Cicely Louise Tyson

SOUNDER 

In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the critically acclaimed Sounder.

SOUNDER, Paul Winfield, Yvonne Jarrell, Eric Hooks, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Taj Mahal, (1972)

Sounder (1972)
Directed by Martin Ritt
Shown: Cicely Tyson

(Original Caption) Actress Cicely Tyson buttons up a boy’s (unidentified) overalls in the 1972 Paramount Home video production of “Sounder“. Undated movie still.

We have lost a true legend. Cicely Tyson was a giant of a woman. A trailblazer with boundless talent and a heart of gold. She was my mentor, my friend, my heart. I am deeply, and forever grateful. And I will miss her dearly. – Kevin Hooks

 

Cicely Tyson and Eric Hooks in SOUNDER  (1972)

(L-R): American actor Paul Winfield holds Eric Hooks and walks beside actors Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, and Yvonne Jerrell in a still from the film ‘Sounder,’ directed by Martin Ritt, 1972. (Photo by Paramount Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images)

Yvonne Jerrell, Kevin Hooks, Eric Hooks

Yvonne Jerrell

Manhattan, New York, New York: Cicely Tyson, a native New Yorker, shows extreme happiness as she stands beneath the marquee of the Guild Theater in Rockefeller Plaza. On it is her name, and the motion picture in which she stars, and for which she has been nominated for an Oscar as best actress.

 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

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