Stepin Fetchit

Birth Name:

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry

Birth Place:

Key West, Florida, United States

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack

Received a Special Image Award from the Hollywood NAACP in 1976 and was inducted into the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame in 1978
Made his screen acting debut in the film "The Mysterious Stranger" in 1925
Started out as a performer in plantation shows, minstrel groups, and carnivals at the age of 14
Quote: "Just because Charlie Chaplin played a tramp doesn't make tramps out of all Englishmen, and because Dean Martin drinks, that doesn't make drunks out of all Italians․ I was only playing a character, and that character did a lot of good․"
Quote: "I defied the law of white supremacy․․․I became the first Negro entertainer to become a millionaire․ All the things that Cosby and Poitier have done wouldn't be possible if I hadn't broken that law․ I set up the thrones for them to come and sit on․"
Best known for his role as Adam in "Bend of the River" and as Jeff Poindexter in "The Sun Shines Bright․"
Played unsophisticated, subservient characters that many viewed as an insult to African Americans, but that he defended as his method of subversion

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