Sidney Easton
Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films.
Murder on Lenox Avenue
as Speed SimmonsDramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better...
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Fight That Ghost
as Spooky LightningPigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either...
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Boarding House Blues
as Boo Boo (as Sid Easton)In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
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Killer Diller
as Policeman (as Sid Easton)An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
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Paradise in Harlem
as Sneeze Ancrum (as Sydney Easton)It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is...
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His Woman
as MarkTough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a...
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Wayward
as GeorgeStory of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel...
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Ouanga
as JacksonIn Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge...
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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
as Sam, train porterThis jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway...
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I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
as Doorman (uncredited)Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.
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A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
as Husband (uncredited)A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he...
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Sunday Sinners
as BootsieReverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular...
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What Goes Up
as uncreditedAn all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star...
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