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