Clayborne Carson

Clayborne Carson was born on Jun 15, 1944 in USA. Clayborne Carson's big-screen debut came with Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine directed by Kamel El Basha in 2014. Clayborne Carson is known for Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine directed by Kamel El Basha, Ramzi Maqdisi stars as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Georgina Asfour as Coretta Scott King. The most recent award Clayborne Carson achieved is Leo Awards. The upcoming new movie Clayborne Carson plays is Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine which will be released on Jul 31, 2014.

Stanford historian Clayborne Carson was chosen by Coretta Scott King as the editor of her late husband's papers, and he is widely known for his contributions to documentaries relating to the movements inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. He was senior advisor for the landmark documentary series, Eyes on the Prize, first broadcast during the 1980s. Since then, he has been involved in the making of more than two dozen documentaries, including Freedom on My Mind (1994), which was nominated for an Oscar in 1995; Citizen King (2004); Have You heard from Johannesburg? (2010); Freedom Riders (2011); Black Panther: Vanguard of a Revolution (2015); and I Am MLK Jr. (2018), for which he served as Executive Director. He also wrote the play Passages of Martin Luther King" (1993), which was initially performed by the Stanford University's Drama Department and later by the National Theatre of China in 2007 and the Palestinian National Theatre in 2013. The latter production was featured in the documentary Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (2013).