Nick Stewart Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Nick Stewart Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Horace Winfred "Nick" Stewart (March 15, 1910 â€" December 18, 2000)

also billed as Nick O'Demus was an American television and film actor.

Stewart was known for his role as Lightnin' (Willie Jefferson) on TV's

The Amos 'n' Andy Show.Nick Stewart was born in New York City, to

Joseph (March 15, 1888 â€" July 1976) and Eva Stewart, who were recent

immigrants from Barbados, British West Indies. He began his show

business career as a dancer at the Cotton Club and Hoofers Club.

Stewart also was a veteran of Broadway shows, having created a comedic

character he called "Nicodemus" and playing that role in Swingin' the

Dream and Louisiana Purchase, as well as in the film Go West, Young

Man. Stewart also performed comedy as a cast member of the Rudy

Vallée radio show in 1941. Other acting credits include the 1936

movie Go West Young Man, the voice of Br'er Bear in the 1946 Disney

movie Song of the South, (As well as in the spin-off Disney attraction

Splash Mountain). and Willy-Willy on the television series Ramar of

the Jungle. Also in 1954, Stewart had an important role in The Reign

of Amelika Joe presented by Fireside Theatre. He also won a comedy

role in White Christmas (1954).He was originally offered the role of

Calhoun the lawyer, which he turned down. (After his refusal, it went

to Johnny Lee, who had the role on radio since 1949.) Soon Gosden and

Correll were back on the telephone, this time offering Stewart the

role of Lightnin' on the television show. Stewart accepted the role

with one idea in mind: to make enough money to be able to open his own

theater where African Americans would not be typecast as maids and

porters. In the 1960s, he would have small roles on Mister Ed and in

the classic comedy film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) as the

Migrant Truck Driver who is forced off of the road. In 1987, Doris

McMillon devoted an entire week of her nightly talk show, On the Line

with, to a discussion of the documentary Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a

Controversy, and the issues surrounding the shows. Nick Stewart was

one of the participants, discussing the show and his role in it. He

also had a role in the movie Carmen Jones.He and his wife, Edna

Stewart, also founded Los Angeles's Ebony Showcase Theatre, which

provided a venue for numerous performers of all races, including Al

Freeman Jr., Yuki Shimoda, William Schallert, Tom Ewell, John Amos,

Nichelle Nichols, Isabel Sanford, B. B. King, Phil Collins, Eartha

Kitt, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan.[27]
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