Onest Conley
Birthday
1906/12/25
Day of death
1989/10/08 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Ernest A. Conley , Onest Conly
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Born in Evanston, Illinois, his mother was the pioneering African-American film actress Madame Sul-Te-Wan (née Nellie Crawford) and his father was Robert Reed Conley. He had two brothers; Odel and Otto. His father abandoned the family shortly after Conley's birth, leaving his actress mother to raise the three boys. Like his mother, Onest Conley gravitated toward the acting profession and began taking bit parts in films. His first film appearance was a mino...Read more
Acting
(1930) Vengeance
as Chief
(1930) The Thoroughbred
as Ham Tolliver
(1935) Racing Luck
as Mose
(1935) Grand Old Girl
as Neptune
(1939) Golden Boy
as Jimmy, Chocolate Drop's Brother
(1948) Jungle Goddess
as Drummer
(1933) This Day and Age
as George Harris
(1926) The Dixie Merchant
as Eph
(1933) King Kong
as Warrior (uncredited)
(1941) She Knew All the Answers
as Shoeshine Boy
(1935) Princess O'Hara
as Stable Boy (uncredited)
(1947) The Foxes of Harrow
as Drummer in Voodoo Sequence (uncredited)
(1946) The Thrill of Brazil
as Specialty dancer (uncredited)
(1928) Diamond Handcuffs
as Native Dancer (uncredited)