Duane Jones Overview:

Actress, Duane Jones, was born on Feb 2, 1936 in New York City, NY. Jones died at the age of 52 on Jul 22, 1988 in Mineola, Long Island .

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: JUST A MAN

By Theresa Brown on Feb 15, 2016 From CineMaven's Essays from the Couch

BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES…BLACK MAN AHEAD! Why did director?George A. Romero do this. Was it some type of allegorical political statement? Was it something more akin to, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I?ll have to do more research on that score. All I know for now, for this piece is, Romero... Read full article


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Duane Jones Quotes:

Ben: Don't you know what's goin' on out there? This is no Sunday School picnic!


Harry Cooper: Did you hear me when I told you they turned over our car?
Ben: Oh, hell! Any good five men could do that!
Harry Cooper: That's my point! There's not going to be five, or even ten! There's going to be twenty, thirty, maybe a hundred of those things, and as soon as they find out we're here, this place'll be crawling with them!
Ben: Well, if there's that much, they'll probably get us wherever we are.


[to Harry Cooper after having been locked outside]
Ben: I ought to drag you out there and FEED you to those things!


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At the time of his death, Dr. Duane Jones was the head of the Theater Department at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.

First African-American to have a starring role in a mainstream horror film - Night of the Living Dead (1968).

His role in Night of the Living Dead (1968) was the first time in American cinema that a Black actor was cast in a lead role of a major motion picture that did not specify that the part had to be played by a black actor.

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