Canada Lee

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Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, known professionally as Canada Lee, was an American professional boxer and actor who pioneered roles for African Americans.

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The cast of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), from left: Walter Slezak, John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Hull, William Bendix, Heather Angel, Mary Anderson, Canada Lee, Hume Cronyn

Lee's grave at Woodlawn Cemetery

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ChildCarl Lee

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Henry ArmstrongAlso in Keep Punching (1939)

Henry HullAlso in Lifeboat (1944)

William GreavesAlso in Lost Boundaries (1949)

Zoltan KordaAlso in Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)

Sid MeltonAlso in Body and Soul (1947)

Edric ConnorAlso in Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)

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Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, known professionally as Canada Lee, was an American professional boxer and actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. After careers as a jockey, boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project, including the 1936 production of Macbeth adapted and directed by Orson Welles. Lee later starred in Welles's original Broadway production of Native Son (1941). A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Lee was blacklisted and died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He advanced the African-American tradition in theatre pioneered by such actors as Paul Robeson. Lee is the father of actor Carl Lee.

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