Sidney Easton

Sidney Easton

Birthday: 1885-10-02

Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA

Biography: Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films.

Movies

His Woman
His Woman

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missiona...

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Fight That Ghost
Fight That Ghost

Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay...

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Ouanga
Ouanga

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on ...

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Paradise in Harlem
Paradise in Harlem

It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is app...

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Killer Diller
Killer Diller

An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen....

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The Story of Mr. Hobbs
The Story of Mr. Hobbs

Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradua...

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Wayward
Wayward

Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Fa...

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The Conjure Woman
The Conjure Woman

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel....

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What Goes Up
What Goes Up

An all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star Babe M...

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Be Like Me
Be Like Me

Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most ...

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Sunday Sinners
Sunday Sinners

Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular night...

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I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket

Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel....

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Boarding House Blues
Boarding House Blues

In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show....

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A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dre...

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Murder on Lenox Avenue
Murder on Lenox Avenue

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business ...

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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ...

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The Musical Doctor
The Musical Doctor

Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music....

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