Stan Lathan was born on July 8,1945 and is an American television and film director and television producer.
23 Facts About Stan Lathan
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Stan Lathan is executive producer and director of BET's Real Husbands of Hollywood.
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The youngest of three boys, Lathan was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Stan Lathan is the son of Julia Elizabeth and Stanley Edward Lathan.
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Stan Lathan's brothers are William Lathan of New York, a medical doctor, and Charles Lewis, a musician living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Stan Lathan earned his Bachelor of Arts in theater at Pennsylvania State University in 1967 and moved to Boston to pursue a master's degree from Boston University.
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Stan Lathan has directed the pilots for many sitcoms, including Martin, Moesha, The Parkers, The Steve Harvey Show, Amen, South Central, Cedric the Entertainer Presents, All of Us, Eve, The Soul Man and Real Husbands of Hollywood.
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Stan Lathan would go on to produce and direct several more of Chappelle's specials, including For What It's Worth, which was produced in 2004 for Showtime.
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In 2017, Stan Lathan produced and directed four Chappelle specials for Netflix: The Bird Revelation, Equanimity, The Age of Spin, and Deep in the Heart of Texas.
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Stan Lathan executive produced and directed Cedric the Entertainer: Taking You Higher, a one-hour comedy special for HBO, and It's Black Entertainment, a two-hour musical documentary for Showtime.
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Stan Lathan directed the 1984 feature film Beat Street for Orion Pictures.
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Stan Lathan directed dramas for public television's Great Performances, American Playhouse and The American Short Story.
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In 1989, Lathan partnered with Russell Simmons to create the stand-up comedy franchise Def Comedy Jam on HBO.
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Stan Lathan received a Peabody Award for the series Def Poetry on HBO.
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That same year, Stan Lathan co-produced Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, which won a Tony Award for best special theatrical event and has toured both domestically and internationally.
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In 2006, Stan Lathan co-created Run's House, a five-season reality series for MTV that spawned a spinoff series, Daddy's Girls.
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Stan Lathan co-executive produced Running Russell Simmons, an eight-part series for Oxygen.
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In 2008, Stan Lathan was the creator and executive producer of Brave New Voices, a seven-part docu-reality series for HBO.
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Stan Lathan received both the 2003 Diversity Award and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors.
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Stan Lathan has received six NAACP Image Awards for his achievements in film and television.
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Stan Lathan was honored in 2014 by the Directors Guild of America for his directing career.
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In 2018, Lathan directed a Netflix stand-up comedy special Mo Amer: The Vagabond and an HBO stand-up comedy special Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin'.
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Stan Lathan won another Grammy Award for the 2019 Best Comedy Album for Dave Chappelle: Equanimity and Dave Chappelle: The Bird Revelation.