version. Whipper was the son of African-American educator, author and activist Frances Rollin Whipper and a nephew of abolitionist William Whipper, attorney...

role of Crooks was performed by Leigh Whipper, the first African-American member of the Actors' Equity Association. (Whipper repeated this role in the 1939...

William Whipper (February 22, 1804 – March 9, 1876) was a businessman and abolitionist in the United States. Whipper, an African American, advocated nonviolence...

collaborator Lionel Belasco. Leighla Frances Whipper was born September 22, 1913, in Athens, Georgia. Her father, Leigh Whipper, was a stage and Hollywood screen...

Undertaker … Leigh Whipper Scipio … Melville Greene Simon Frazier, a lawyer … A. B. Comathiere Alan Archdale … Erskine Sanford The Crab Man … Leigh Whipper The...

series theme song by Duke Ellington Cast: Canada Lee, Muriel Smith, Leigh Whipper, Will Geer, Ralph Bell, John Ireland, Alexander Scourby March 26, 1944...

Leigh Whipper. It was distributed by Producers Releasing Corporation. Steve Pendleton as Jeff Owens Mikel Conrad as 'Gator-Bait' Blair Leigh Whipper as...

Noble Sissle was the first elected president, 1937–1957; followed by Leigh Whipper, 1957–1960; Frederick O'Neal, 1960–1964; Charles "Honi" Coles, 1964-ca...

Beery Jr. as Whit Oscar O'Shea as Jackson Granville Bates as Carlson Leigh Whipper as Crooks Helen Lynd as Susie When the film was first released, Frank...

Frances Anne Rollin Whipper (November 19, 1845 – October 17, 1901) was a political activist, teacher, and author. Whipper and her four sisters were socially...

entertainment committees. She elicited the help of a friend, the actor Leigh Whipper, and other black entertainers for her committee. She made numerous personal...

With Robert Elliott and Macon B. Allen, Whipper formed the nation's first known African American law firm, Whipper, Elliott, and Allen. He and John L. Mitchell...

theatrical and cinematic performances. She worked with Fredi Washington, Leigh Whipper, and others to provide financial and social resources for African American...

as Jeff Farnley Paul Hurst as Monty Smith Chris-Pin Martin as Poncho Leigh Whipper as Sparks (uncredited) Stanley Andrews as Bartlett (uncredited) Victor...

Curley's wife Claire Luce Pamela Blair Jane Fleiss Leighton Meester Crooks Leigh Whipper Joe Seneca Roger Robinson Ron Cephas Jones Carlson Charles Slattery...

starred Tim Moore as well as Gertie Brown. It is a lost film. A comedy, Leigh Whipper wrote it was the best of the African American films he had seen. D....

where she accepted only female patients. Whipper raised her brother, Leigh Whipper's, daughter, Leighla Whipper, who went on to become a songwriter and...

Boudreaux (credited as Odette Myrtle) Eugene Borden as Papa Boudreaux Leigh Whipper (uncredited) The film was generally well received as accomplishing what...

Hornaday Marjorie Reynolds as Jeanie Grayson Cy Kendall as Ambrose Ballard Leigh Whipper as Kezeye Sally Payne as Belle Starr Eddie Acuff as Sam Starr Robert...

paintings that came out of Locke's encouragement were Dans un Café à Paris (Leigh Whipper), The Janitor and The Pink Table Cloth.: 51  Previously in 1934, Jones...

soubrette in café Lionel Royce as Monsieur Lebec Buck Woods as Thonga Leigh Whipper as Scarface Ernest Whitman as Whiteface Noble Johnson as Chief Joan...

Willie L. Phillips, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Leigh Whipper, actor Howard University Historically black colleges and universities...

Reverend Dr. Roberts Bramwell Fletcher as Wilbur Ashley Clyde Cook as Ted Leigh Whipper as Jim Fish Oscar Polk as Umeela Darby Jones as Darby Richard Ainley...

Warmsley Dan Tobin as Prof. Joseph Bangs Kathryn Card as Mrs. Foster Leigh Whipper as George Charles Trowbridge as Justice Putnam James Westerfield as...

Thumb" Leigh Whipper Gold Award for Best Short Subject Won 2019 Philafilm: Philadelphia International Film Festival "Voice of Majesty" Leigh Whipper Gold...

Shep Wayne (credited as Milt Kibbee) John Dilson as Charles Clayton Leigh Whipper as Old Ben Marjorie Cooley as Teacher Robert Dudley as Old Man Bowers...

Welles Mae West Vera West Perc Westmore Bert Wheeler Arleen Whelan Leigh Whipper Alice White Jacqueline White Josh White O. Z. Whitehead Paul Whiteman...

in the newly formed Negro Actors Guild organized by Noble Sissle and Leigh Whipper. Among its members were Fredi Washington, executive director; Edna Thomas...

Admiral Arthur Wainwright Marguerite Whitten as Samantha, the Maid Leigh Whipper as Momba, the Butler Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Tahama, the Cook and High...

Newton as Gibbs Jack Lambert as Louie Raymond Largay as Arthur Hampton Leigh Whipper as Alistair Byron Foulger as Burton Lorrison Lee Phelps as Polasky Eddie...