Percy Verwayne (March 10, 1895 – November, 1968), sometimes spelled Percy Verwayen, was an American stage and film actor.[1] He featured in several films with African American casts including the 1921 REOL Productions film The Simp and Oscar Micheaux films. He played "Sporting Life" in Porgy, when it was first produced in 1927.[2] He was also in the 1946 Toddy Pictures production Fight That Ghost.
Percy Verwayne | |
|---|---|
 Verwayne as Sporting Life in the original Broadway production of Porgy (1927) | |
| Born | March 10, 1895 |
| Died | November 1968 (aged 73) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1921–1957 |
He was born in British Guyana.[3]
Theatre edit
- Porgy (1927)
- Confidence (1930), by and starring Frank Wilson[4]
Filmography edit
- The Simp (1921)
- A Daughter of the Congo (1930) as Pidgy Muffy
- Paradise in Harlem (1939) as Spanish
- Fight that Ghost (1946)[5]
- Sepia Cinderella (1947) as MacMillan
References edit
- ^ "Percy Verwayne". Playbill.
- ^ Ochs, Michael (December 8, 2016). "Vintage black male glamour – in pictures". Guardian Media Group. The Guardian. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "VERWAYNE, PERCY". The Caribbean Memory Project.
- ^ "At the Alhambra Theatre". The New York Age. December 6, 1930. p. 6.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
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