{"id":23759,"date":"2012-08-11T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23759"},"modified":"2012-08-11T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:03:20","slug":"malcolm-x-movie-famous-actor-albert-freeman-jr-dies-video-23759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/malcolm-x-movie-famous-actor-albert-freeman-jr-dies-video-23759\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm X movie famous actor Albert Freeman Jr dies \/ Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Albert Freeman Jr, the veteran US actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee’s epic film Malcolm X, has died. He was 78.<\/h1>\n

Howard University in Washington confirmed his death on Friday night but details weren’t immediately available.<\/p>\n

Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theatre arts department.<\/p>\n

“He was a brilliant professor, a renowned actor and a master director who made his mark in the classroom as well as on stage, screen and television… He has mentored and taught scores of outstanding actors. He was a resounding voice of Howard and will be missed,” university spokeswoman Kerry-Ann Hamilton said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Freeman earned an NAACP Image Award for playing Malcolm X’s mentor in Lee’s 1992 biography.<\/p>\n

He also received an Emmy nomination for his role as Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.<\/p>\n

He won a best-actor Daytime Emmy that year for his work as Captain Ed Hall on the soap opera One Life to Live.<\/p>\n[media id=587 width=610 height=340]\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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