Ernest Anderson (actor)

Ernest Anderson
Ernest Anderson
	Ernest Anderson in In This Our Life, 1942
Born	August 25, 1915; Lynn, Massachusetts
Died	March 5, 2011 (aged 95); DeLand, Florida
Occupation	Actor

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Ernest Anderson was an American actor. He became known for his role as an African American paralegal and law student who is falsely accused of manslaughter by a white woman in the Warner Bros. film In This Our Life in 1942.^[1]^[2]^[3] For his performance, he received a National Board of Review Award for Best Actor in 1942.^[4]^{[circular reference]}

Biography

Anderson attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.^[5] and later earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.^[6]^{[citation needed]}

Anderson moved to Hollywood and took a job with Warner Brothers.^{[citation needed]} His first acting role was in In This Our Life (1942). Bette Davis had arranged Anderson's interview for the part of Parry Clay in that film.^{[citation needed]}^[7]

He served briefly in the Army at the end of World War II. He returned to Warner Bros. after serving in World War II.^{[citation needed]}^[8]

Selected filmography

In This Our Life (1942) - Parry Clay
The Peanut Man (1947)
The Well (1952) - Mr. Crawford
Band Wagon (1953) - Train Porter
North by Northwest (1959) - Porter
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) - Ice cream cone seller
Tick, Tick, Tick (1970) - Homer
Coma (1972) - First Doctor
Last of the Good Guys (1978) - Uncle Stan
The Return (1980) - Dr. Mortorff

References

^ Wartts, Adrienne (2008-12-25). "Ernest Anderson (1916-2011) •". Retrieved 2020-07-26.
^ Michaels, Camille R. (2017-07-15). African Americans in Film: Issues of Race in Hollywood. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. ISBN 978-1-5345-6082-6.
^ Tracy, Tony; Flynn, Roddy (2014-01-10). John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5993-3.
^ National Board of Review Awards 1942
^ Cripps, Thomas (1993-05-20). Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-536034-9.
^ Cripps, Thomas (1993). Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-502130-1.
^ Stern, Julia A. (2022-01-19). Bette Davis Black and White. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-81386-8.
^ Six New Films Sprinkled with Negro Stars. Jet. 1952-10-02.

External links

Ernest Anderson at IMDb

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[1] Wartts, Adrienne (2008-12-25). "Ernest Anderson (1916-2011) •". Retrieved 2020-07-26.

[2] Michaels, Camille R. (2017-07-15). African Americans in Film: Issues of Race in Hollywood. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. ISBN 978-1-5345-6082-6.

[3] Tracy, Tony; Flynn, Roddy (2014-01-10). John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5993-3.

[4] National Board of Review Awards 1942

[5] Cripps, Thomas (1993-05-20). Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-536034-9.

[6] Cripps, Thomas (1993). Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-502130-1.

[7] Stern, Julia A. (2022-01-19). Bette Davis Black and White. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-81386-8.

[8] Six New Films Sprinkled with Negro Stars. Jet. 1952-10-02.

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