Percy Verwayne
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Percy Verwayne (1895 - 1968), sometimes spelled Percy Verwayen, was an actor on stage[1] and in American films. He featured in several films with African American casts including REOL Productions 1921 film The Simp and Oscar Micheaux films. He was also in the 1946 Toddy Pictures production Fight That Ghost and Sporting Life in Porgy when it was first produced in 1927.[2]
He was born in British Guyana.[3]
Theater
- Porgy (1927)
Filmography
- The Simp (1921)
- A Daughter of the Congo (1930) as Pidgy Muffy
- Paradise in Harlem (1939) as Spanish
- Fight that Ghost (1946)[4]
- Sepia Cinderella (1947) as MacMillan
References
- ^ "Percy Verwayne". Playbill.
- ^ Ochs, Michael (8 Dec 2016). "Vintage black male glamour – in pictures". Guardian Media Group. The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "VERWAYNE, PERCY". The Caribbean Memory Project.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.