William Okuwah Garrett Dies: ‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Editor & Music Video Director Was 73
deadline.comWilliam Okuwah Garrett, film editor on Hollywood Shuffle and director of music videos during the “Black Pack” era of the early ’90s, has died.
He was 73. His wife, producer-director Marlene McCurtis, told Deadline that Garrett died December 9 of complications related to kidney disease. RELATED: Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery Hollywood Shuffle, the 1987 satire co-written, produced and directed by and starring Robert Townsend, was a comedic poke in the eye of Hollywood for its stereotyping of Black actors.
With a budget of $100,000, the pic opened to critical acclaim and pulled in $5.2 million at the box office. It featured a series of vignettes and fantasies that Garrett wove into a film that inspired the Washington Post to write that it’s technical proficiency “should thoroughly embarrass those studios.” The man friends called Okuwah went on to work on Mom and Dad Save the World, From a Whisper to a Scream, Deep Cover, Fear of a Black Hat and In Dangerous Company before transitioning into directing music videos.
He started by helming jazz giants Stanley Clark and George Duke in their cover of Funkadelic’s “Mothership Connection.” Among his many videos were Dr.
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