Ernest Anderson (actor)

Ernest Anderson was an American actor. He became known for his role as an African American paralegal and law student who is falsely accused of manslaughter by a white woman in the Warner Bros. film In This Our Life in 1942.[1][2][3] For his performance, he received a National Board of Review Award for Best Actor in 1942.[4][circular reference]

Ernest Anderson
Ernest Anderson in In This Our Life, 1942
Born(1915-08-25)August 25, 1915
DiedMarch 5, 2011(2011-03-05) (aged 95)
OccupationActor

Biography

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Anderson attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.[5] and later earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.[6][citation needed]

Anderson moved to Hollywood and took a job with Warner Brothers.[citation needed] His first acting role was in In This Our Life (1942). Bette Davis had arranged Anderson's interview for the part of Parry Clay in that film.[citation needed][7]

He served briefly in the Army at the end of World War II. He returned to Warner Bros. after serving in World War II.[citation needed][8]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Wartts, Adrienne (2008-12-25). "Ernest Anderson (1916-2011) •". Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. ^ Michaels, Camille R. (2017-07-15). African Americans in Film: Issues of Race in Hollywood. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. ISBN 978-1-5345-6082-6.
  3. ^ Tracy, Tony; Flynn, Roddy (2014-01-10). John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5993-3.
  4. ^ National Board of Review Awards 1942
  5. ^ Cripps, Thomas (1993-05-20). Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-536034-9.
  6. ^ Cripps, Thomas (1993). Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-502130-1.
  7. ^ Stern, Julia A. (2022-01-19). Bette Davis Black and White. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-81386-8.
  8. ^ Six New Films Sprinkled with Negro Stars. Jet. 1952-10-02.
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