Leigh Whipper
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican actor (1876-1975)
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Leigh Rollin Whipper was an American actor on the stage and in motion pictures. He was the first African American to join the Actors' Equity Association, and one of the founders of the Negro Actors Guild of America.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Of Mice and Men
Within Our Gates
Undercurrent
King of the Zombies
Road to Zanzibar
Dark Waters
Mission to Moscow
The Symbol of the Unconquered
Young Widow
White Cargo
The Hidden Eye
The Young Don't Cry
Heart of the Golden West
Happy Land
The Vanishing Virginian
The Shrike
Bahama Passage
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Untamed Fury
The Negro Sailor
Virginia
Once Upon a Time in Harlem24 credits on file
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About this person
Leigh Rollin Whipper was an American actor on the stage and in motion pictures. He was the first African American to join the Actors' Equity Association, and one of the founders of the Negro Actors Guild of America. He created the role of Crooks in the original Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, which he reprised in the 1939 film version.
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United StatesCategory
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1876 to 1975 · aged 98
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