A Lesson Before Dying (film)

A Lesson Before Dying

Created by	Ernest J. Gaines (novel)
Written by	Ann Peacock (teleplay)
Directed by	Joseph Sargent
Starring	Don Cheadle Cicely Tyson Mekhi Phifer Irma P. Hall
Theme music composer	Ernest Troost
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Editor(s)	Michael Brown
Running time	105 minutes
Production company(s)	Ellen M. Krass Productions Home Box Office Spanky Pictures
Distributor	Future Film Home Box Office mediacs AG
Release
Original network	HBO
Original release	22 May 1999

A Lesson Before Dying is a television film released in 1999 adapted from the Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name.

Cast and characters

Don Cheadle – Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson – Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer – Jefferson
Elaine Russell – Miss Emma
Brent Jennings – Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell Anderson – Vivian Baptiste
Frank Hoyt Taylor – Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper – Henri Pichot
Patty Mack – Inez
Elijah Kelley – Clarence
Wynton Yates – Louis Washington
Clay Chappell – Paul
Cierra Meche – Estelle

References

"The Primetime Emmy Awards: The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards". TV.com. 1999. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

External links

A Lesson Before Dying at the Internet Movie Database
A Lesson Before Dying at AllMovie

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie

1980–2000

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Playing for Time (1981)
A Woman Called Golda (1982)
Special Bulletin (1983)
Something About Amelia (1984)
Do You Remember Love (1985)
Love Is Never Silent (1986)
Promise (1987)
Inherit the Wind (1988)
Day One & Roe vs. Wade (1989)
Caroline? & The Incident (1990)
Miss Rose White (1992)
Barbarians at the Gate & Stalin (1993)
And the Band Played On (1994)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Truman (1996)
Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
Don King: Only in America (1998)
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
Tuesdays with Morrie (2000)

2000–present

Wit (2001)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Door to Door (2003)
Something the Lord Made (2004)
Warm Springs (2005)
The Girl in the Café (2006)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Recount (2008)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Temple Grandin (2010)
The Normal Heart (2014)
Bessie (2015)
Sherlock: "The Abominable Bride" (2016)

Miniseries or Movie

Films directed by Joseph Sargent

One Spy Too Many (1966)
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
The Hell with Heroes (1968)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Tribes (1970)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
The Man (1972)
White Lightning (1973)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Friendly Persuasion (1975)
The Night That Panicked America (1975)
MacArthur (1977)
Goldengirl (1979)
Coast to Coast (1980)
Nightmares (1983)
Memorial Day (1983)
Choices of the Heart (1983)
Terrible Joe Moran (1984)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
Day One (1989)
The Incident (1990)
Never Forget (1991)
Miss Rose White (1992)
Somebody's Daughter (1992)
Skylark (1993)
Abraham (1993)
World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
My Antonia (1995)
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
The Long Island Incident (1998)
Crime and Punishment (1998)
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
Bojangles (2001)
Out of the Ashes (2003)
Something the Lord Made (2004)
Warm Springs (2005)
Sybil (2007)
Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)

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