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Ernest Anderson (actor)

January 01, 1970

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]

Ernest Anderson
Ernest Anderson in In This Our Life, 1942
Born(1915-08-25)August 25, 1915
Lynn, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 5, 2011(2011-03-05) (aged 95)
DeLand, Florida
OccupationActor

Biography edit

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 edit

References edit

  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.

External links edit

  • Ernest Anderson at IMDb
 

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