Hunter Haynes
American entrepreneur and film producer
About Hunter Haynes
Lived 1867 – 1918 (aged 50–51).
Hunter C. Haynes (1867 – January 1, 1918) was an American barber, entrepreneur and inventor. He was an innovator of strops to sharpen razor blades, founded a barbershop supply company, and was a film producer and film company founder. His parents had been enslaved for part of their lives. He established Haynes Photoplay Company after working as a producer at the white-owned Afro-American Film Company. He was lauded as a Black filmmaker.
He was born in Selma, Alabama. His parents were William Haines, a laborer, and Silvia Haines, a seamstress. Uncle Remus' First Visit to New York (1914)
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American entrepreneur and film producer
When was Hunter Haynes born?
Hunter Haynes was born in 1867.
When did Hunter Haynes die?
Hunter Haynes died in 1918.
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