Edgar "Blue" Washington (12 February 1898 â€" 15 September 1970), was
an American actor and played in the Negro Leagues for a few years as a
pitcher for the Chicago American Giants and the Los Angeles White Sox,
and played first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs.He appeared in
74 films between 1919 and 1957, mostly playing small, uncredited roles
as a porter, a bartender, an African native (as in King Kong (1933)
and Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), a cook, a chauffeur, a ship's crew
member, a Nubian slave, and a doorman. Some of his characters had
names such as "Ulambo", "Sambo" (sambo) and "Hambone". In the 1933
film Haunted Gold, he portrayed Clarence, John Wayne's comic
sidekick.He was given the nickname "Blue" by film director Frank Capra
when both were kids. Washington's son, Kenny Washington, a standout
athlete at UCLA where he was a teammate of Jackie Robinson, broke the
color barrier in the NFL in 1946.
an American actor and played in the Negro Leagues for a few years as a
pitcher for the Chicago American Giants and the Los Angeles White Sox,
and played first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs.He appeared in
74 films between 1919 and 1957, mostly playing small, uncredited roles
as a porter, a bartender, an African native (as in King Kong (1933)
and Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), a cook, a chauffeur, a ship's crew
member, a Nubian slave, and a doorman. Some of his characters had
names such as "Ulambo", "Sambo" (sambo) and "Hambone". In the 1933
film Haunted Gold, he portrayed Clarence, John Wayne's comic
sidekick.He was given the nickname "Blue" by film director Frank Capra
when both were kids. Washington's son, Kenny Washington, a standout
athlete at UCLA where he was a teammate of Jackie Robinson, broke the
color barrier in the NFL in 1946.
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