Ganja & Hess [SEP] director
Ganja &amp; Hess
Ganja & Hess is a 1973 experimental horror film written and directed by Bill Gunn and starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones. The film follows the exploits of anthropologist Dr. Hess Green (Jones), who becomes a vampire after his intelligent but unstable assistant (Gunn) stabs him with an ancient cursed dagger. Green falls in love with his assistant's widow, Ganja (Clark), who learns Green's dark secret.
It is one of only two films in which the lead role was
ethnic backgrounds. The students were picked from his Acting Styles classes at American Academy of Dramatic Arts. 
He was in other films after "Night of the Living Dead" such as "Ganja & Hess" (1973) and "Beat Street" (1984) and continued working as a theater actor and director until his death in 1988. Despite his other film roles, Jones worried that people only recognized him as Ben.
Death.
Jones died of cardiopulmonary arrest at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, Long