Dick Fontaine
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Who is Dick Fontaine?
Dick Fontaine is an English documentary filmmaker, currently head of documentary direction at the National Film and Television School.
Fontaine was one of the founders of Granada Television's World in Action series. He has made numerous films on African-American music and other closely related topics, including Beat This: A Hip-Hop History and Bombin'. In all, he has made over 40 documentaries.
By his wife, the African-American actress Pat Hartley, he is the father of writer, music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine.
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on July 23, 2013
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