- Was the first African-American to produce a sound feature film: The Exile (1931).
- Those who worked with him have indicated that he pronounced his last name as "Me-shaw"
- Was the first African-American to produce a feature film: The Homesteader (1919).
- Received a star on Hollywood Boulevard in 1987.
- He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Within Our Gates (1920) and Body and Soul (1925).
- Founder/President of Micheaux Film Corp., formed in 1920.
- He was nominated for the 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Entertainment Category.
- Interred at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend, Kansas.
- Began his adult life as a Pullman porter for the Southern Illinois Railways.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 765-770. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
- Dropped out of high school.
- Cousin of Solveig.
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