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, 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. 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 between production of the first and second episodes.
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.
External links
- Jimmy Wright at IMDb Listing for "Souls of Sin"
- Jim Wright at IMDb Listing for "Personal Problems"
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