Juano Hernández
Birthday: 1896-07-19
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Biography: An Afro-Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry.
Movies
The Pawnbroker
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realiz...
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Young Man with a Horn
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jaz...
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Sergeant Rutledge
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white w...
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The Breaking Point
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals....
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Kiss Me Deadly
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, wh...
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Something of Value
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier...
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Intruder in the Dust
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowin...
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Machete
This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Je...
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The Mark of the Hawk
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial A...
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Ransom!
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers....
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Stars in My Crown
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western...
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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor fath...
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Two Loves
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand....
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Trial
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom ...
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Lying Lips
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt....
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The Reivers
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends...
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The Girl from Chicago
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful you...
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St. Louis Blues
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for h...
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend....
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Harlem Is Heaven
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson made his movie acting debut in this 1932 film, featuring Putney Dandridge,...
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....
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The Life of General Villa
Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both ...
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The Notorious Elinor Lee
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight....
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being a...
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Cabin in the Sky
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where h...
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