Raymond St Jacques

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AKA: James Arthur Johnson
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 03/01/1930
Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death Date: 08/27/1990

biography

Tall, stage-trained actor with a resonant baritone voice who emerged as one of America's premier black performers of the mid-1960s. St. Jacques, who effectively portrayed heroic characters as well as villains, appeared in "The Pawnbroker" (1965) and "The Comedians" (1967) and starred as the cop Coffin Ed Johnson in the action-comedy "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970). He originated the first continuing black character on a TV Western as the cattle driver in the series "Rawhide". St. Jacques directed, produced and starred in the 1973 feature "Book of Numbers", a comic drama about racketeering in a Continued

Credits

Street Preacher
1988
Martin Luther King Jr
Detective Sanchez
Mercer
Actor
Doc McGee
Jimmy Newsome
John Kumalo
Coffin Ed Johnson
Coffin Ed Johnson
Director
Claude
Blueboy Harris
B G
Producer

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Began career as actor, assistant director and fencing director for American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford CT
 
Performed with Shakespeare festivals in San Diego and New York
 
Moved to New York where worked as dishwasher, houseboy, model and Bloomingdale's salesman while studying at Actors Studio
1954 
Off-Broadway debut, "High Name Today" (date approximate)
1961 
First major stage role in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" (Off-Broadway)
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