Percy Verwayne Explained

Percy Verwayne
Birth Date:	10 March 1895
Birth Place:	British Guyana
Death Place:	New York City, U.S.
Occupation:	Actor
Years Active:	1921–1957

Percy Verwayne (March 10, 1895 – November, 1968), sometimes spelled Percy Verwayen,was an American stage and film actor.^[1] He featured in several films with African American casts including the 1921 REOL Productions film The Simp and Oscar Micheaux films. He played "Sporting Life" in Porgy, when it was first produced in 1927.^[2] He was also in the 1946 Toddy Pictures production Fight That Ghost.

He was born in British Guyana.^[3]

Theatre

• Porgy (1927)
• Confidence (1930), by and starring Frank Wilson^[4]

Filmography

• The Simp (1921)
• A Daughter of the Congo (1930) as Pidgy Muffy
• Paradise in Harlem (1939) as Spanish
• Fight that Ghost (1946)^[5]
• Sepia Cinderella (1947) as MacMillan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Percy Verwayne. Playbill.
2. News: Ochs . Michael . Vintage black male glamour – in pictures . 31 March 2021 . The Guardian . Guardian Media Group . 8 Dec 2016.
3. Web site: VERWAYNE, PERCY. The Caribbean Memory Project.
4. News: At the Alhambra Theatre. The New York Age. December 6, 1930. 6.
5. Web site: AFI|Catalog. catalog.afi.com.