Mantan Moreland aktor
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Although his brand of humor has been reviled for decades, Negro character actor Mantan Moreland parlayed his cocky but jittery character into a recognizable presence in the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in a long string of comedy thrillers . . . and was considered quite funny at the time!Born just after the turn of the century in Louisiana, Mantan began running away from home at age 12 to join circuses and medicine shows, only to be brought back time and again. During these times he sharpened his comic skills and developed routines and acts that eventually became popular on the vaudeville stage, or what was then called the chitlin circuit. A solo performer by nature, he often teamed up with other famous comics (such as Ben Carter) to keep working, and became a deft performer of indefinite talk routines, where two quicksilver comics continually topped each other in mid-sentence, as if reading each others mind (i.e., Say, did you see...? Saw him just yesterday...didnt look so good). Mantans focus gradually shifted his trade toward film, where he initially appeared in servile bits (shoeshine men, porters, waiters). However, his talent for making people laugh couldnt be overlooked and he soon earned featured status in Harlem-styled western parodies and grade A comedy films playing the superstitious, ever-terrified manservant running from any kind of impending doom.Morelands peak in movies came with his recurring role as Birmingham, the skittish chauffeur, in the Charlie Chan series, where he was forever forewarning his boss to stay away from an obviously dangerous case or situation. Though haunted mansions were an ideal place for setting off his stereotyped character, Mantan would be haunted in a different way by this Hollywood success in years to follow. By the 1950s, racial attitudes began to change and, with the rise of the civil rights movement, what was once considered hilarious was now interpreted as demeaning and offensive to both blacks and whites. Mantan and others, such as Stepin Fetchit, were ostracized and ridiculed by Hollywood for their past negative portrayals. It took decades for audiences to forgive and newer generations to forget the Depression-era comedy of Mantan Moreland in order for the actor to come back.In the late 1960s he managed a modest resurgence on TV and in commercials and occasional films, allowing him to work again with such comic heavyweights as Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge and director Carl Reiner. It was all too brief, however, for Mantan, long suffering from ill health, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1973, just as he was settling in to his renewed popularity. Today, audiences tend to be kinder and more understanding of Moreland, remembering him as a highly talented comic who, in the only way he knew, broke major barriers and opened the doors for others black actors to follow.
Railway Porter (uncredited)
Film 1941
Messenger
Film 1967
Joe the Counterman
Film 1970
Amos
Film 1942
Harry
Film 1945
Birmingham Brown
Film 1944
Birmingham Brown
Film 1944
Birmingham Brown
Film 1945
Birmingham Brown
Film 1946
Birmingham Brown
Film 1946
Birmingham Brown
Film 1946
Porter (uncredited)
Film 1941
Birmingham Brown
Film 1948
Birmingham Brown
Film 1947
Birmingham Brown
Film 1948
Alistair
Film 1942
Birmingham Brown
Film 1948
Horatio B.Fitz Washington
Film 1942
Washington
Film 1942
Sam, the Nightclub Janitor (uncredited)
Film 1942
Jeff Jefferson
Film 1940
Black Trumpet Player (uncredited)
Film 1941
Porter (uncredited)
Film 1945
Jefferson White
Film 1940
Norris Family Butler
Film 1938
Nicodemus
Film 1942
Eustace Smith
Film 1943
Skidmore
Film 1943
Woody
Film 1943
Jeff the porter
Film 1942
Jefferson 'Jeff' Smith
Film 1941
Film 1946
Jeff Jefferson
Film 1941
Cicero - Wash Room Attendant (uncredited)
Film 1942
Tilby
Film 1938
Creighton 'Crickie' Fitzgibbons
Film 1938
Bill Blake
Film 1938
Schenectady Jones
Film 1942
Train Station Porter (uncredited)
Film 1944
Maxwell
Film 1943
Jeff
Film 1941
Mantan
Film 1946
Prentiss - The Benedict Butler (uncredited)
Film 1942
Rusty
Film 1941
Roy
Film 1941
Pinto
Film 1945
Self
Film 1956
Subway Rider
Film 1967
Mistletoe
Film 1937
Washington
Film 1941
Washington
Film 1942
Mantan
Film 1947
Flint's Chauffeur
Film 1942
Sport Black at the Wake (uncredited)
Film 1939
Jefferson "Jeff" Jones
Film 1942
Chappie, the Cook
Film 1939
Porter
Film 1944
Thomas H. Jefferson
Film 1940
Mantan
Film 1949
Bellhop
Film 1940
Robbins
Film 1940
Memphis - The Cook
Film 1940
'Snake-Eyes'
Film 1942
Waiter on Train
Film 1940
Angel Removing Hat (uncredited)
Film 1936
Jefferson
Film 1940
Sergeant 'Blue' Williams
Film 1940
Beefus - Touissant's Chauffeur
Film 1940
Bootblack
Film 1943
Porter (uncredited)
Film 1942
Film 1946
Film 1948
Mantan
Film
Film 1948
Film 1948
Porter
Film 1940
Film 1940
Anxious Man
Film 1940
Birmingham Brown
Film 1949
Gloomy
Film 1938
Lightnin'
Film 1942
Waiter at Swade's (uncredited)
Film 1943
Porter
Film 1943
The Porter
Film 1944
Willie
Film 1943
Porter with Snowshoes (uncredited)
Film 1943
Night Watchman
Film 1933
Mantan Moreland
Film 1946
Train Porter (uncredited)
Film 1944
Woody, Nick's Valet (uncredited)
Film 1943
Old Man
Film 1973
Diner Cook
Film 1941
Samson Brown
Film 1939
Nash
Film 1940
Uncle Dewey
Tv 1969
Harry James
Tv 1968
Philip Richards
Tv 1968
