Duane Jones Movies
Duane Jones spent much of his career actively promoting and participating in African-American theater companies as an actor and a director. The former English professor also directed the Maguire Theater at the Old-Westbury campus of New York State University and served as artistic director at the Richard Allen Center in NYC. As an actor, many will best remember
Jones as the ill-fated hero in
George Romero's
Night of the Living Dead (1968) and as an anthropologist-turned-vampire in
Ganja and Hess (1973).
Jones made his final film appearance in the 1989 horror feature To Die For. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
