Wendell B. Harris Jr.

Awards

Nominated for 1 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Award

Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature 1 nominated

• ◦ 1992 Best First Feature Nominated Chameleon Street

Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 1 won

• ★ 1990 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award Won Chameleon Street

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Wendell B. Harris Jr. (born March 5, 1954), is a Juilliard and Interlochen-trained American filmmaker and actor. He is the writer, director and lead actor of Chameleon Street, which won the Grand Jury prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. Harris and Prismatic Images, a multi-award-winning film/video/audio production facility his family founded, went on to produce a radio series entitled Black Biography, which showcased black icons from the spheres of art, history, and politics. He has appeared as an actor in the films Out of Sight (1998) and Road Trip (2000).