Leigh Whipper
Birthday
1876/10/29
Day of death
1975/07/26 (98 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Also know as
Lee Whipper
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leigh Rollin Whipper (October 29, 1876 – July 26, 1975) was an American actor on the stage and in motion pictures. He was the first African American to join the Actors' Equity Association, and one of the founders of the Negro Actors Guild of America. He is best known for creating the role of Crooks in the original Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, which he reprised in the 1939 film version. Educated at Howard University Law School, he left in 1895 an...Read more
Acting
(1941) Road to Zanzibar
as Scarface
(1946) Undercurrent
as George
(1939) Of Mice and Men
as Crooks
(1945) The Hidden Eye
as Alistair
(1941) Bahama Passage
as Morales
(1942) White Cargo
as Jim Fish
(1942) Heart of the Golden West
as Rango
(1946) Young Widow
as Nate (Uncredited)
(1941) Virginia
as Ezechial
(1945) The Negro Sailor
as Editor
(1955) The Shrike
as Mr. Carlisle
(1943) The Ox-Bow Incident
as Sparks (uncredited)
(1920) The Symbol of the Unconquered
as Tugi - an Indian Fakir
(1943) Happy Land
as Old Ben (uncredited)
(1941) Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Kezeye
(1947) Untamed Fury
as Uncle Gabe
(1941) King of the Zombies
as Momba
(1957) The Young Don't Cry
as Doosy
(1942) The Vanishing Virginian
as Uncle Josh
(1943) Mission to Moscow
as Haile Selassie (uncredited)
(1920) Within Our Gates
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