Dick Fontaine

Dick Fontaine is an English documentary filmmaker, currently (as of 2006) head of documentary direction at the National Film and Television School (UK).
Fontaine was one of the founders of Granada Television's World in Action series. He has made numerous films on African-American music and other closely related topics, including Beat This: A Hip-Hop History (1984) and Bombin' (1988). In all, he has made over 40 documentaries.
By his wife, the African-American actress Pat Hartley (who appeared in several Andy Warhol films, as well as Rainbow Bridge and Absolute Beginners), he is the father of writer, music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine.

• The Face On the Cover (1964)
• Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (1964)
• Madam Six (1965)
• Temporary Person Passing Through (1965)
• Don't Mrs Worthington (1966)
• Tati in the Traffic (1966)
• Who's Crazy? (1966)
• Heroes (1967)
• Sound??? (1967)
• Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up! (1967)
• Who Is Sonny Rollins? (1968)
• Who Is Victor Vasarely? (1968)
• The Other Guys Are the Joke (1970)
• Double Pisces Scorpio Rising (1971)
• Death of a Revolutionary (1972)
• Who Killed Cock Robin? (1974)
• A Famous Soldier (1976)
• I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1980)
• Beat This! A Hip Hop-History (1984)
• Bombin' (1986)
• Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger (1987)
• Cleo Sings Sondheim (1988)
• New York Law (1989)
• Betty Carter: New All the Time (1994)