Charles Burnett (b. April 13 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker, educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. Burnett's style is rarely violent and his most original work concentrates on the lives of the African American middle class. His first feature, "Killer of Sheep" (1977), was made while he was a graduate student at UCLA. Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Charles Burnett. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burnett_%28director%29
