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 between production of the first and second episodes.[4]

References
  1. Reed, Ishmael (27 August 2020). "The Black Artist Hollywood Couldn't Buy". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. Pinkerton, Nick (30 March 2018). "Between You and Me". Art Forum. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. Lucca, Violet (30 March 2018). "Interview: Ishmael Reed". Film Comment. Retrieved 31 August 2020.


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