John Ridley Biography

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John Ridley is a film director, actor and writer. He is one of the creators of Urban Entertainment, showcasing short films and animation from minority filmmakers, including his own works: the animated cartoons Undercover Brother (the basis for the film starring comedian Eddie Griffin) and Those Who Walk in Darkness, featuring the voice of rapper Lil' Kim — which itself was the basis of a novel of the same name written by Ridley.

His novel Stray Dogs was the basis for the 1997 film U-Turn, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Sean Penn, Nick Nolte and Jennifer Lopez. Ridley also provided the original story for the film Three Kings, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube.

Recently, he has started hosting Movie Club With John Ridley on American Movie Classics and has written The Authority and The American Way for DC Comics.

On the weekend of August 19, 2006, John co-hosted the syndicated program Ebert & Roeper while film critic Roger Ebert was on medical leave. John suggested the out-of-print Criterion Collection DVD of Sid and Nancy (1986) to the show's viewers as his "Thumbs Up Video" selection.

Bibliography

Fiction novels

• Stray Dogs (1997)
  
• Love is a Racket (1998)
  
• Everybody Smokes in Hell (1999)
  
• A Conversation with the Mann (2002)
  
• The Drift (2002)
  
• Those Who Walk in Darkness (2003)
  
• What Fire Cannot Burn (2006)
  

Graphic Novels

• The Authority: Human on the Inside with artist Ben Oliver (2004)
  
• The American Way with artist Georges Jeanty (2006)
  

Screenplays

• U Turn (1997)
  
• Cold Around the Heart (1997) (also directed)
  
• Three Kings (1999)
  
• Undercover Brother (2003)
  
• Positively Fifth Street (2007) (also directing)
  
• Let Me Take You Down (2007) (also directing)
  
• The Night Watchman (2008)
  

Teleplays

• Static Shock (2000)
  
• Third Watch - six episodes (2001)
  
• Platinum (2003) (also directed)
  
• Barbershop: The Series (2005) (also directed)
  

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