Barbara O. Jones, an actress within the unbiased Black cinema of Seventies Los Angeles in movies like Bush Mama and Daughters of the Mud, died on April 8 at her dwelling in Dayton, Ohio. She was 82.
Her brother, Marlon Minor, confirmed the loss of life to the New York Instances and mentioned the trigger had not been decided.
Jones moved from the Midwest in the hunt for a movie profession, and have become lively within the U.C.L.A. movie college, a motion that has been referred to as the L.A. Rebel.
She appeared in a number of brief scholar movies, together with Youngster of Resistance (1973), by which she performed an imprisoned activist loosely based mostly on Angela Davis, and Diary of an African Nun (1977), tailored from a brief story by Alice Walker.
Her first main function in a characteristic movie was in Bush Mama (1979). The film’s story adopted the every day lifetime of Dorothy, performed by Jones. The movie was a couple of working-class Black girl fighting a every day life not often seen in movies of that period.
Jones labored in tv and had roles in different Seventies movies, usually showing beneath the display names Barbarao, Barbara-O and Barbara O. Her resume included Black Chariot (1971) and the 1977 science fiction horror film Demon Seed, starring Julie Christie.
She additionally had a bigger half within the 1979 mini-series Freedom Street, by which she performed the spouse of Muhammad Ali.
ones’s final main credit score was Daughters of the Mud (1991), by which she performed Yellow Mary, a former prostitute who grew up among the many Gullah folks of the Southeast coast.
Survivors embrace her brother, Marlon, her kids, Makini Jones, Mshinda Jones and Dhati Worth, 5 grandchildren, one great-grandson, and one other brother, Raymond.