Mario Van Peebles

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Mario Van Peebles is a highly regarded director, actor, producer and writer. His directorial skills can be seen in the retelling of the epic mini-series "Roots" starring Forest Whitaker and Matthew Goode. Van Pebbles has directed award-winning shows such as the recent hit "Empire" and "The Last Ship," as well as "Sons of Anarchy," "Lost," "Damages," and "Boss." As an actor Van Peebles has credits are as equally impressive.An independent filmmaker to his core, Van Pebbles grew up watching Melvin Van Peebles, his maverick filmmaker father. A true master craftsman in his own right, Van Peebles is defined as a director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer; known for funding his own work.His many talents can be seen in films like his directorial breakout hit "New Jack City," "Posse" and "Panther;" plus Michael Mann's Oscar® nominated "Ali," in which he received critical acclaim for his role as real life minister and human rights activist Malcom X; the multi-award-winning "Cotton Club" written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge;" and several projects with Ava DuVernay.Throughout his career, Van Peebles has brought challenging, compelling material to the screen, including his hip hop coming-of-age film "We the Party," for which he wrote, directed and produced; his documentary short "Bring You're a Game;" and, of course, "Baadasssss!" This was Van Peebles' odyssey about the making of his father's groundbreaking film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and was one of Ebert and Roeper's ten best movies of the year for 2004.As a director, Van Pebbles has affected unusually strong performances from his fellow actors. They often remark that he creates a collaborative climate where they feel free to do their best work. He believes his background as an actor helps him approach the actor's character development process internally. Conversely, he believes being a director has made him a more trusting, nuanced actor. Being able to do both is like creative crop rotation for Van Peebles. Not many directors get the privilege of being directed by other strong filmmakers. Acting for others is still "super exciting" to him.In 1994, Hofstra University awarded Van Peebles an honorary doctorate of humane letters. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia University, Van Peebles spent two years working at New York's Department of Environmental Protection before moving to Hollywood to try his hand at acting writing and directing.In addition to directing and acting in features, Van Peebles is passionate about supporting education and eco-consciousness through media. With his reality show, Mario's Green House, he teamed up with his five children and his father to chronicle the Van Peebles family's often-humorous attempts to raise their eco-consciousness as they try to go green in Hollywood. Green "We never got to the full green, more like Olive green," jokes Van Peebles. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Elizabeth Putignani Wolfe @ EWPR

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Mario Van Peebles’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Mario Van Peebles on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1984 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Mario Van Peebles movies released per year from 2009 till 2021.

Top Genres

Mario Van Peebles works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Thriller Genre flixes. 30% of Mario Van Peebles movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Mario Van Peebles worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Mario Van Peebles has worked on is 5.6.

5.6 / 10

Mario Van Peebles's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Mama Flora reflects on her life while trying to help her grand-daughter get her life right and be a better mother for her son. All while bringing the family she has left back together. Movies takes place from the 1910s to the 1970s.

7.7/10175 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama
Baadasssss! (2003)

Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).

7.3/10109 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

In the early 1980s, football star Ricky Bell befriends Ryan Blankenship, a disabled boy.

7.2/10100 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.

7/10251 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Sport
Ali (2001)

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

6.7/10157 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
New Jack City (1991)

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

6.6/1097 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Drama,Thriller
5th & Alameda (2011)

Maybe you're not cut out to be a criminal. Two wounded souls seek redemption in a violent crime.

6.2/10123 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.

6.1/1085 min

Available in 5 platform(s).