Stan Lathan
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Stan Lathan (born July 8, 1945) is an American television and film director and television producer.
He is executive producer and director of BET's Real Husbands of Hollywood.
He has produced and directed numerous stand-up comedy specials starring comedian Dave Chappelle, including Killin' Them Softly, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation, and Sticks & Stones.
Early life
The youngest of three boys, Lathan was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Julia Elizabeth (Dunston) and Stanley Edward Lathan. His mother was a clerical employee. His brothers are William Lathan of New York, a medical doctor, and Charles Lewis, a musician living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lathan graduated from Overbrook High School in 1963. He 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. In response to the heightened tension surrounding the civil rights movement at that time, he was recruited by television station WGBH-TV in 1968 to help create and direct the country's first magazine show entirely produced by, for, and about African Americans-- Say Brother.
Career
Lathan has been in charge of 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 The Real Husbands of Hollywood.
Dave Chappelle, the executive producer and director of the stand-up comedy series Dave Chappelle: Them Softly written by and starring comedian Dave Chappelle. It was Chappelle's first hour-long HBO special, and it premiered in 2000. Lathan will continue to produce and direct several more of Chappelle's specials, including For What It's Worth, which was released in 2004 for Showtime. Lathan produced and directed four Chappelle specials for Netflix in 2017: The Bird Revelation, Equanimity, The Age of Spin, and The Heart of Texas. Sticks & Stones, Chappelle's fifth Netflix special, was also directed by him.
He produced and directed Cedric the Entertainer, a one-hour comedy special on HBO, and It's Black Entertainment, a two-hour musical documentary for Showtime.
When he was taken to Los Angeles to direct multiple episodes of Sanford & Son in 1973, Lathan began directing network television. He went on to direct Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Remington Steele, Cagney & Lacey, Frank's Place, Roc, and others. Beat Street, Orion Pictures' 1984 feature film, was also directed by him.
For public television's Great Performances, The American Short Story, Lathan supervised dramas. He produced Alvin Ailey: Memories & Visions and other dance specials starring Martha Graham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Agnes de Mille for PBS. He produced three seasons of the hit PBS music film SOUL!, and he was one of the first directors of Sesame Street.
On HBO, Lathan developed the stand-up comedy franchise Def Comedy Jam in 1989. Russell Simmons partnered with Russell Simmons to create Def Comedy Jam. This series lasted eight seasons and starred many of today's most popular television and movie stars.
On HBO, Lathan received a Peabody Award for the series Def Poetry. Lathan co-produced Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, which received a Tony Award for best special theatrical performance and has toured both nationally and internationally, during the same year.
Run's House, a five-season reality television series that spawned a spinoff series called Daddy's Girls, was co-created by Lathan in 2006. Running Russell Simmons, an eight-part series for Oxygen, was also co-executive produced by him. He executive produced and directed The Ruckus, a stand-up comedy for Comedy Central in 2012.
Lathan, the creator and executive producer of Brave New Voices, a seven-part docu-reality series for HBO, appeared on HBO in 2008. Lathan produced and directed An Evening of Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word, a White House tribute to President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's visit to 2009.
The Caucus for Writers, Writers, and Directors, Lathan, both received the 2003 Diversity Award and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caucus for Writers, Writers, and Directors. For his achievements in film and television, he has been nominated for six NAACP Image Awards. In 2014, the Directors Guild of America honoured him for his contribution to his film career. He received the Trailblazer Award from the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 2017. Dave Chappelle's Age of Spin, a comedian, received a Best Comedy Album award in 2018 for the same show, as well as Deep in the Heart of Texas.
"I Be Knowin'" was Lathan's Netflix stand-up comedy special Mo Amer: The Vagabond and an HBO stand-up comedy special.
Equanimity (2017), a Lathan executive produced and directed Dave Chappelle, who received a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded).
Dave Chappelle's Equanimity and Dave Chappelle's The Bird Revelation.