Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations , issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary …

Aug 8, 2024 · In 1976, Spike’s mother, Jacquelyn, died after being diagnosed with cancer, and shortly after, Bill began dating a woman named Susan Kaplan.

May 25, 2023 · Bill Lee, a jazz bassist who played with Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin and Duke Ellington, who was also the father of filmmaker Spike Lee, died at his Brooklyn home Wednesday...

May 26, 2023 · Director Spike Lee has announced the death of his father Bill Lee, an jazz bassist and composer, at the age of 94 at his home in Brooklyn, New York. Bill Lee scored many of the early films...

3 days ago · Spike Lee (born March 20, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) is an American filmmaker known for his uncompromising provocative approach to controversial subject matter. The son of the jazz composer Bill Lee, he was reared in a middle-class Brooklyn neighbourhood.

Dec 10, 2024 · Speaking during an appearance at the fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday (via THR), Lee opened up about the idea that he might retire. The...

Dec 27, 2024 · Spike Lee Recalls the Moment He Found Out About Chadwick Boseman's Death "I went to open my phone, and my phone — the whole thing had been blowing up. I turned it off.

Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher.

Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary …

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary …