Jimmy Wright (actor) explained

Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor. A member of the all-black cast of the Voodoo Macbeth production directed by Orson Welles in 1936,^{[1] [2]} Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in Souls of Sin, a 1949 feature directed by Powell Lindsay and produced by William D. Alexander that has been described as the last race film from a black producer.^[3] In 1980, credited as "Jim Wright," he played Father Brown in Personal Problems, a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed, but died between production of the first and second episodes.^[4]

External links

• Listing for "Souls of Sin"
• Listing for "Personal Problems"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Reed . Ishmael . The Black Artist Hollywood Couldn't Buy . The Criterion Collection . 31 August 2020 . 27 August 2020.
2. Web site: Pinkerton . Nick . Between You and Me . Art Forum . 31 August 2020 . 30 March 2018.
3. Book: Kisch . John . Mapp . Edward . A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters . 1992 . Noonday Press . New York . 0-374-52360-6 . 145 . registration .
4. Web site: Lucca . Violet . Interview: Ishmael Reed . Film Comment . 31 August 2020 . 30 March 2018.