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- Earl Cameron did not set out to be an actor. Bermudian by birth, Cameron joined the British Merchant Navy in the 1930s for the travel opportunities that it afforded. By the early 1940s, with World War II in full swing, Cameron found himself in London working menial jobs to survive. After seeing a West End revival of the musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, he got the acting bug. When an actor didn't show up for a performance, Cameron replaced the actor in the production. This was followed by a series of roles on the London stage.
In 1951, he received a big break when he was cast in Pool of London (1951). The film directed by Basil Dearden in which Cameron played a dockworker who falls in love with a local woman, was significant in that it was one of the first British films to feature a Black man in a non-stereotypical role. He was essentially the UK counterpart to Sidney Poitier, who made his film debut around the same time, although equally talented, he never became a star. Toward the end of the decade, he would work with Dearden again in Sapphire (1959), where he would play a physician who is the brother of the title character, who was murdered while passing for White.
Other significant film film roles in Cameron's career include Thunderball (1965) where he played opposite Sean Connery as Pinder, Bond's Bahamian assistant. Cameron played an ambassador in A Warm December (1973), a film starring and directed by Poitier. In The Interpreter (2005), a film directed by Sydney Pollack , in which he played Edmond Zuwanie, a dictator loosely based on Robert Mugabe.
Cameron continued to work steadily in film and television into his nineties. One of his last appearances was in They've Gotta Have Us (2018), a documentary on Black actors in Hollywood produced by BBC Two.
He died in 2020 at the age of 102. - Camera and Electrical Department
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Mike Frift was born on 14 September 1941 in Bedfont, Middlesex, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Lifeforce (1985), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Runaway Train (1985). He was married to Catherine Amey. He died on 26 June 2019 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, UK.- Writer
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Lyricist, poet ("Little Boy Blue", "Wynken, Blynken and Nod") newspaper columnist and author, educated at Williams College, Knox College, and the University of Missouri. He began his newspaper work in St. Joseph, Missouri, and then worked in St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver and Chicago between 1883 and 1895. He was an early columnist for the newspaper 'Sharps & Flats' and the Chicago 'Morning News', and he also wrote poems for his columns. Beginning in 1940, his works came under ASCAP, and his poems were later set to music.- Eddie Hapgood was born on 24 September 1908 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939), This Is Your Life (1955) and One Pair of Eyes (1967). He died on 20 April 1973 in Honiley Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, UK.