Charles Fuller Dies: Pulitzer-Winning ‘A Soldier’s Play’ Playwright Was 83
deadline.comCharles Fuller, the groundbreaking playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his enduring drama A Soldier’s Play, died Monday of natural causes in Toronto.
He was 83. His death was announced to the Associated Press by his wife Claire Prieto-Fuller. “It has been my greatest honour to perform his words on both stage and screen,” said David Alan Grier, who starred in the 2020 Broadway production of A Soldier’s Play and also appeared in the 1984 film adaptation A Soldier’s Story. “His genius will be missed.” RELATED: Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery Set on a Louisiana Army base during World War II and focusing on a segregated Black regiment, A Soldier’s Play used a murder mystery to examine the racism present both in the world at large and within the regiment itself: The murder victim was a tough-as-nails Black sergeant loathed by his own soldiers.
Fuller wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation that starred Howard E. Rollins Jr. and, as the slain officer Adolph Caesar, earning an Oscar nomination.
Born in Philadelphia on March 5, 1939, Fuller attended Villanova University before enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958, spending four years stationed in Japan and South Korea.
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