vaudeville act when Walker was 20. Bert Williams had come to the United States as a child with his parents from the Bahamas, and became a vaudeville entertainer...

clergyman George Walker (vaudeville) (1873–1911), American vaudeville singer, partner of Bert Williams Benjamin Walker (author) (George Benjamin Walker, 1913–2013)...

group of minstrels. George Walker was a "dandy", a performer notorious for performing without makeup due to his dark skin. Most vaudeville actors were white...

Overton Walker (February 14, 1880 – October 11, 1914), also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an American vaudeville performer...

Black entertainers in Vaudeville included comedians Bert Williams, and George Walker, dancer/choreographer Ada Overton Walker, and many others. Black...

Black Vaudeville is a term that specifically describes Vaudeville-era African American entertainers and the milieus of dance, music, and theatrical performances...

(Fall 1997). "George Mann: New American Master". Photographer's Forum. 19 (4): 13–18. Woodard, Josef. "Touching Photographs Capture Vaudeville in Its Dying...

African-American representation in vaudeville theater. It opened on February 18, 1903, at the New York Theatre, starring George Walker and Bert Williams, two iconic...

partial list of vaudeville performers. Inclusion on this list indicates that the subject appeared at least once on the North American vaudeville stage during...

James Carter Walker Jr. (born June 25, 1947) is an American actor and comedian. He portrayed James ("J.J.") Evans Jr., the older son of James Evans Sr...

partial list of vaudeville performers. Inclusion on this list indicates that the subject appeared at least once on the North American vaudeville stage during...

(2008) by Richard Aellen is a play centered on Williams' and George Walker's time in vaudeville. Williams had at least 142 songs recorded. "Nobody" (1905)...

being a writer, Foster was a press agent for vaudeville stars such as Bert Williams and George Walker (vaudeville) and also worked as a booking agent and business...

Julius Hurtig (October 18, 1868 – March 9, 1928) was an American vaudeville and theatre producer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Metta and...

Williams, George Walker, Johnson and Dean, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Irving Jones, Tim Moore, and Johnny Hudgins, also performed in white vaudeville, often...

26, 1926. "Vaudeville Routes Next Week". The Vaudeville News and New York Star. April 9, 1927. "Vaudeville Routes Next Week". The Vaudeville News and New...

seen as beneficial to performers, both Black and white. Frogs founder, George Walker, wanted to build a fully funded, fully supported all-Black network,...

in nearby Cadiz. As host to opera, live drama, vaudeville, and minstrel shows at the Opera House, Walker became a respected businessman and patented inventions...

Sisters, Emma (1874–1918) and Mabel (1877–1918) Griffin, were American vaudeville performers in the late 1800s and early 1900s who became entrepreneurs...

January 2013, he appeared as Astrov in a production of Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre. He played Ivanov and Trigorin in the Chichester Festival Theatre's...

Julie and Wally George (né George Walter Pearch), a disc jockey and later television host. Her paternal grandmother was vaudeville performer and child film...

Walter Charles Kelly (October 29, 1873 – January 6, 1939) was an American vaudeville comedian, monologist and actor. He toured for some years, billed as "The...

with him. The event includes a performance by Bert Williams and George Walker, a vaudeville comedy act featuring them in blackface. The crowd erupts in laughter...

1896 – January 31, 1973) and George Mann (December 2, 1905 — November 22, 1977), known as the "laugh kings" of vaudeville, were a comedic dance act from...

vaudeville shows and films from the 1890s through the 1920s. Beginning as the prima donna for the Williams & Walker Company (Bert Williams and George...

poet Paul Dunbar. It starred the prominent black vaudeville team of Bert Williams and George Walker. Then crossing the Atlantic, it played for seven months...

Wilbur Mack (born George Frear Runyon, July 29, 1873 – March 13, 1964) was an American film actor and early vaudeville performer from the 1920s through...

city, eventually working on Broadway. For several years, Reed toured in vaudeville with his cousin, Harry Green. He also had two other jobs—operating a wholesale...

Whitman Sisters were four African-American sisters who were stars of Black Vaudeville. They ran their own performing touring company for over forty years from...

Fred Astaire partner Barrie Chase. She was a child actress working in vaudeville and had several bit parts in movies as a teenager, including Love Is Better...