The cinema is just one medium in which the multi-talented Melvin Van Peebles has distinguished himself. After serving a stint in the US Air Force, he lived in Mexico where he worked as a portrait painter in the mid-1950s. Van Peebles made his first short films ("Sunlight" and "Three Pickup Men for Herrick", 1958) while working in a San Francisco post office. He went on to live…
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