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Sidney Lumet
American director Sidney Lumet after receiving an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, 2005.
The 1978 film The Wiz, directed by Sidney Lumet, featured an all-Black cast that included the following performers:1
- Diana Ross as Dorothy
- Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow
- Nipsey Russell as the Tinman
- Ted Ross as the Lion
- Richard Pryor as the Wiz
- Lena Horne as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South
- Mabel King as Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West
- Thelma Carpenter as Miss One
- Theresa Merritt as Aunt Em
- Stanley Greene as Uncle Henry
- Derrick Bell, Roderick-Spencer Sibert, Kashka Banjoko, and Ronald Stevens as the Four Crows1