Curiosidades

Was the first African-American to produce a sound feature film: O Exílio (1931).

Those who worked with him have indicated that he pronounced his last name as "Me-shaw"

Was the first African-American to produce a feature film: The Homesteader (1919).

Received a star on Hollywood Boulevard in 1987.

He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Nos Limites dos Portões (1920) and Corpo e Alma (1925).

Founder/President of Micheaux Film Corp., formed in 1920.

He was nominated for the 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Entertainment Category.

Interred at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend, Kansas.

Began his adult life as a Pullman porter for the Southern Illinois Railways.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 765-770. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Dropped out of high school.

Cousin of Solveig.