Jimmy Wright (actor)
Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor. A member of the all-black cast of the "Voodoo" Macbeth production directed by Orson Welles in 1936,[1][2] Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in Souls of Sin, a 1949 feature directed by Powell Lindsay and produced by William D. Alexander that has been described as the last race film from a black producer.[3] In 1980, credited as "Jim Wright," he played Father Brown in Personal Problems, a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed, but died during between production of the first and second episodes.[4]
References
- ^ Reed, Ishmael (27 August 2020). "The Black Artist Hollywood Couldn't Buy". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Pinkerton, Nick (30 March 2018). "Between You and Me". Art Forum. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Kisch, John; Mapp, Edward (1992). A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters. New York: Noonday Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-374-52360-6.
- ^ Lucca, Violet (30 March 2018). "Interview: Ishmael Reed". Film Comment. Retrieved 31 August 2020.