Work : Prize 1979 (Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor)
Death:Death, Cause unspecified 9 August 2012 (Age 78) chart Placidus Equal_H.
American actor, director, and educator, who was the first African-American to win a Daytime Emmy Award for acting. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones "Slave/Toilet" to Joe Papps revivals of "Long Days Journey Into Night" and "Troilus and Cressida," and films, including "My Sweet Charlie," "Finians Rainbow," and "Malcolm X," as well as television series and soap operas, such as "One Life to Live," "The Cosby Show," "Law & Order," "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Edge of Night." He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of police captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live," a role he played from 1972 through 1987, with recurring appearances in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for that role in 1979, the first actor from the show as well as the first African-American actor to earn the award. A director of "One Life to Live," he was one of the first African Americans to direct a soap opera. Freeman died on 9 August 2012 in Washington, D.C., aged 78. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Freeman A. Hrabowski III is an American mathematician, engineer, educator, and university administrator. He is the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a professor of computer science. He is also the founder and director of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which provides financial and academic support to talented minority students.
Hrabowski was born in San Antonio, Texas, on March 21, 1931. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hampton University in 1953 and his master's degree in engineering science from the University of Michigan in 1958. He then worked as a research mathematician for the United States Air Force before joining the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960.
In 1970, Hrabowski became the founding director of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC. The program has helped to increase the number of minority students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Hrabowski has also served as president of UMBC since 1989.
Hrabowski has received numerous awards for his work, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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