The Color Purple
Film
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is a 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg. It stars Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery and others.
Crew & production
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Screenwriters
- Alice Walker, Menno Meyjes
- Producers
- Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg
- Director of photography
- Allen Daviau
- Composer
- Quincy Jones
- Editor
- Michael Kahn
- Production company
- Amblin Entertainment
- Original language
- English
- Filming locations
- North Carolina
- Budget
- $15 million
- Box office
- $98.4 million
Trailer
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Top cast
19 peopleDanny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Margaret Avery
Oprah Winfrey
Adolph Caesar
Rae Dawn Chong
Akosua Busia
Laurence Fishburne
Carl Anderson
Leon Rippy
Susan Beaubian
Willard E. Pugh
More cast
- Dana Ivey
- Maria Howell
- Hawthorne James
- Leonard Jackson
- Ben Guillory
- Sonny Terry
- James Tillis
Sources
- Wikidata (Q223299), accessed October 2026
- Cast photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each profile
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