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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaClarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first Negro to star in a film. He acted for more than sixty years appearing in more than 150 movies.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received an international law degree in 1911. He was acting in New York by the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players.Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood and performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. In regards to the Lafayette Theatres staging of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences because, in a way, it was every black mans story. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.. Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor; he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. In 1943, he became the first African American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun.Muse was also the co-writer of several notable songs. In 1931, with Leon René and Otis René, Muse wrote When Its Sleepy Time Down South, also known as Sleepy Time Down South. The song was sung by Nina Mae McKinney in the movie Safe in Hell (1931), and later became a signature song of Louis Armstrong.He was the major star in Broken Earth (1936), which related the story of a black sharecropper whose son miraculously recovers from fever through the fathers fervent prayer. Shot on a farm in the South with nonprofessional actors (except for Muse), the films early scenes focused in a highly realistic manner on the incredible hardship of black farmers, with plowing scenes. In 1938, Muse co-starred with boxer Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth, the fictional story of a champion boxer which featured an all black cast. Muse and Langston Hughes wrote the script for Way Down South (1939).Muse performed in Broken Strings (1940), as a concert violinist who opposes the desire of his son to play swing. From 1955-56, Muse was a regular on the weekly TV version of Casablanca, playing Sam the pianist (a part he was under consideration for in the original Warner Brothers film), and in 1959, he played Peter, the Honey Man, in Porgy and Bess.He appeared on Disneys TV miniseries The Swamp Fox. Other film credits include Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Worlds Greatest Athlete (1973) and as Gazengas Assistant, Snapper in Car Wash (1976). His last acting role was in The Black Stallion (1979).
Evans the Butler
Film 1941
Pullman Porter
Film 1943
Supreme Court Doorkeeper (uncredited)
Film 1942
Smoke Johnson
Film 1932
Caddy in Haiti (uncredited)
Film 1933
'Lunch' McClaren
Film 1934
Margaret's Servant (uncredited)
Film 1942
Samuel, Carriage Driver
Film 1941
Party Server
Film 1940
Snoe
Film 1979
Rosebud, the Trainer
Film 1932
Self
Film 1933
Jehu
Film 1951
Deacon
Film 1936
Whitey
Film 1934
Train Porter
Film 1946
Abraham Jackson
Film 1933
Porter (uncredited)
Film 1945
Frank (uncredited)
Film 1945
Uncle Caton
Film 1939
Eustace Brown
Film 1931
Curfew
Film 1932
Film 1941
Sam
Film 1933
Quashy
Film 1952
Old Jeff
Film 1941
Sam
Film 1934
Jonas Polk
Film 1931
Farina's father
Film 1929
Congo MacRosenbloom
Film 1937
Lightning
Film 1937
Clarence, Train Waiter (uncredited)
Film 1947
Cato
Film 1935
Kyba
Film 1945
Sam
Film 1933
Frankie Walburn
Film 1938
Brutus
Film 1938
Colonial Club Doorman (uncredited)
Film 1943
Horatio
Film 1932
Tombeau
Film 1932
Tim Washington, the Doorman
Film 1932
Clarence
Film 1932
Nham
Film 1931
Sunrise
Film 1933
Nappus
Film 1929
Arthur Williams
Film 1940
Church Member (uncredited)
Film 1929
Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
Film 1929
Film 1921
Driver (uncredited)
Film 1930
Alabam' / Singing Voice of Condemned Man (uncredited)
Film 1931
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1930
Film 1937
Rascal
Film 1932
Death Row Singing Prisoner (uncredited)
Film 1932
Jefferson
Film 1930
Voice of Singer (uncredited)
Film 1933
Lincoln
Film 1936
Train Porter
Film 1940
Jim
Film 1931
Masseur
Film 1933
Stablehand
Film 1930
Bud's Truck Partner
Film 1935
Man (uncredited)
Film 1944
Shamrock
Film 1934
'Rufe'
Film 1935
Newcastle
Film 1931
Nero
Film 1930
Clarence
Film 1931
Singer
Film 1930
Kyba
Film 1956
Native (uncredited)
Film 1934
Porter (uncredited)
Film 1947
Ben - Bank Janitor (uncredited)
Film 1945
Carter (uncredited)
Film 1944
Lightin'
Film 1946
Ben
Film 1940
Henry
Film 1944
Angel (uncredited)
Film 1936
Old Joe
Film 1935
Train Porter (uncredited)
Film 1952
Second Man on Death Row (uncredited)
Film 1947
Jefferson Q. Leffingwell
Film 1932
Dr. George Washington Carver
Film 1947
Horace
Film 1943
Porter (uncredited)
Film 1944
Henry Prince
Film 1940
Reverend Bitters
Film 1940
Black Revivalist
Film 1930
Mr. Pope
Film 1948
Nightclub Singer (uncredited)
Film 1932
Sam (uncredited)
Film 1941
Entertainer (uncredited)
Film 1944
Taylor Tibbs
Film 1932
A Blind Negro
Film 1932
Papa Harris
Film 1977
Mose
Film 1950
Eddie
Film 1942
George the Butler
Film 1944
Curfew
Film 1931
Bootblack in Saloon (uncredited)
Film 1941
Jeff (uncredited)
Film 1943
Jasper (uncredited)
Film 1943
Donald Freeland
Film 1973
Train Porter
Film 1945
Rusty
Film 1930
Diaper Delivery Man
Film 1954
Shoeshine Man
Film 1932
George
Film 1943
Porter
Film 1943
Sam
Film 1943
First Mate Johnson
Film 1935
The Farmer
Film 1936
Pompey
Film 1951
Self (archive footage)
Film 1975
Sam
Film 1936
Bino
Film 1940
Henry
Film 1944
Smoky
Film 1947
Train Steward / Sam
Film 1938
Butler
Film 1943
Durham's Valet (uncredited)
Film 1942
Albert
Tv 1950
Tv 1955
Tv 1955
Phil
Tv 1952
