Grant Harper Reid Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
'Grant Harper Reid Author'''''Rhythm For Sale Grant Harper Reid worked in the entertainment industry for decades tasking mainly in the thankless job of setting and servicing movie locations in New York City. You name the film or television show and Grant was involved or "down with it". He worked with many greats like Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Francis Coppola and Sir Alan Parker. When the black film movement came to the fore Grant was also on board working from Spike Lee all the way up to classic Afro-American director Charles Lane on his Sidewalk Stories.One of the highlights of Grant's works was when he directed Michael Jackson in a documentary for Motown/Commodore Entertainment in Madison Square Garden. He was also happy when director Jamie Foley allowed him to switch the stereotypical racial roles from black to white and visa-versa in Madonna's film Who's That Girl. He became a member of Mayor Dinkins Committee For Positive Action to combat the racist and unfair hiring practices in the film industry. While Grant was at study with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the New Cinema Artists program with Ossie Davis. Grant produced a television hit show for WPIX Channel 11 titled A Nation In View with filmmakers Gordon Parks Jr., and Phil D'Antoni producer of "The French Connection" and "Bullitt". it was one of their most highly rated and best received shows.Warner Brothers-"Working with a star of Madonna's notoriety in the streets of New York is hard enough. Adding the complications caused by four wild cougars, a large Hollywood-sized crew, and filming sites located in the very heart of Harlem, the problems become nearly insurmountable. Against such odds, Grant was able to handle it all and keep a totally calm and professional attitude throughout. I would also like to add that his budgeting concerns kept me happy while his artistic "eye" kept the Designer and Director very happy. Often a difficult task". -G. Mac Brown Production Manager/Producer.Sidewalk Stories-"We had to get two insurance polices when we went into production on our feature silent film "Sidewalk Stories", one policy was with Great Northern Insurance Company and the other policy was Grant Harper Reid." Christopher Quinn-Associate Producer/Production Manager.After years of production work Grant became discouraged with the "Niggaticks" Uncle Tom Negro-filmmakers and the white bigot production mangers who even to this day refuse to hire minorities (blacks, Latins, and Asians) in Above-the Line department head positions because of their feelings of racial superiority.Luckily for Grant is was at the same time that he discovered his family legacy by way of his producer Grandfather the great Leonard Harper. He accidentally stumbled upon a book about the Harlem Renaissance while walking out of a local library and a paragraph mentioned his famous (during his time) grandfather and everything changed. Grant was determined to make
An avid history buff who was awarded a certificate of recognition from Ossie Davis for his studies and works at the Third World Cinema/National Academy of Television's Arts and Science training program.
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He has also worked in many aspects of employment in the recording industry from album cover photographer to promotion man. Some of Grant's photographic works appear in the books; Electric Gypsy-Jimi Hendrix, The Illustrated Jimi Hendrix, Experience Hendrix, Univibes. his album photographs appear on "Voodoo Soup", "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" and "Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock".
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He did professional freelance work as a theatre reviewer for BET Entertainment Television-Magazine and has won the top Poet-Tree Award from Rolling Out/Black Arts Movement and his first ever painting was selected and featured in the Jeep Corporation's Motion Through Art Calendar-2002.
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A proud sponsor of the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington D.C., after having uncovered and donated his great-great grandfather Friday Hamilton's many Civil war records to the institution. Friday Hamilton is memorialized on Civil War Memorial's wall of honor.
Location Management
Title
Year
Status
Character
Woo
1998
location scout - uncredited
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
TV Movie location manager: New York - as Grant Reid
The West Side Waltz
1995
TV Movie location manager - as Grant Reid
Dead Presidents
1995
location manager: second unit - uncredited
The Buried Mirror
1994
TV Mini-Series location manager: Bronx N. Y. - as Grant Reid
New York Undercover
1994
TV Series location scout - as Grant Reid
The Cowboy Way
1994
location assistant - as Grant Reid
Hoffa
1992
location scout - uncredited
Light Sleeper
1992
location assistant - uncredited
Get Back
1991
Documentary location manager - as Grant Reid
True Identity
1991
location manager - as Grant Reid
New Jack City
1991
location manager: second unit - uncredited
Ghost
1990
location scout - uncredited
Quick Change
1990
location assistant - as Grant Reid
She-Devil
1989
location assistant - uncredited
Sidewalk Stories
1989
location manager - as Grant Reid
Do the Right Thing
1989
location scout - uncredited
Rescue 911
1989
TV Series documentary location manager - as Grant Reid
Mississippi Burning
1988
location assistant: Mississippi - as Grant H. Reid
Crossing Delancey
1988
location scout - uncredited
Crocodile Dundee II
1988
location assistant - uncredited
Who's That Girl
1987
location assistant - uncredited
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
location scout - uncredited
Nightlife
1986
TV Series location manager - as Grant Reid
Legal Eagles
1986
location assistant: second unit - uncredited
A Chorus Line
1985
location assistant - uncredited
The Last Dragon
1985
location assistant - uncredited
Fame
1980
assistant location manager - uncredited
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Experience Jimi Hendrix
2001
Video documentary researcher - as Grant Reid
American Playhouse
1993
TV Series unit location manager - 1 episode
Sugar Hill
1993
location assistance - as Grant Reid
Angel Heart
1987
production assistant: New York - as Grant Reid
Heartburn
1986
production assistant - uncredited
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
production assistant - uncredited
The Nutcracker
1985
TV Movie production assistant - as Grant Reid
The Cotton Club
1984
production assistant - as Grant Reid
The First Time
1983
production assistant - as Grant Reid
Not Just Another Woman
1974
production assistant - as Grant Reid
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sidewalk Stories
1989
Homeless Man - during the finale scenes (as Grant Reid)