Percy Verwayne
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Percy Verwayne | |
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Born | |
Died | November 1968 New York City, U.S. | (aged 73)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1921–1957 |
Percy Verwayne (March 10, 1895 – November, 1968), sometimes spelled Percy Verwayen, was an American stage and film actor.[1] He featured in several films with African American casts including the 1921 REOL Productions film The Simp and Oscar Micheaux films. He played "Sporting Life" in Porgy, when it was first produced in 1927.[2] He was also in the 1946 Toddy Pictures production Fight That Ghost.
He was born in British Guyana.[3]
Theatre
- Porgy (1927)
- Confidence (1930), by and starring Frank Wilson[4]
Filmography
- The Simp (1921)
- A Daughter of the Congo (1930) as Pidgy Muffy
- Paradise in Harlem (1939) as Spanish
- Fight that Ghost (1946)[5]
- Sepia Cinderella (1947) as MacMillan
References
- ^ "Percy Verwayne". Playbill.
- ^ Ochs, Michael (December 8, 2016). "Vintage black male glamour – in pictures". Guardian Media Group. The Guardian. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "VERWAYNE, PERCY". The Caribbean Memory Project.
- ^ "At the Alhambra Theatre". The New York Age. December 6, 1930. p. 6.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
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