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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 12 min., 56 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Music executive and television actor Aki Aleong was born on December 19, 1934 in Trinidad. He attended Progressive Education Institute and Boys High School in Brooklyn and, in 1951, enrolled at Brooklyn College. In 1954, Aleong appeared in Teahouse of the August Moon on Broadway. Aleong was cast in Motorcycle Gang in 1957 and later performed in 200 television programs and thirty movies including: Never So Few (1959), The Hanoi Hilton (1987), Farewell to the King (1989), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Aleong wrote the hit songs "Trade Winds" and "Shombalor." In 1967, Aleong was hired by Capital Records. He produced Norman Connors' You are My Starship and HistoryMaker Roy Ayers' Red Black and Green. He served on the boards of the Screen Actors Guild and Media Action Network for Asian Americans and was the executive director of Asians in Media.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong
Aki Leonard Gonzales Aleong
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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