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Weyland Rodd Sr.
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Wayland Rodd, born in the United States, was the first African-American performer of the role of Othello in a white company (New York). In the early 1930s, he came to the USSR wit…
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Wayland Rodd, born in the United States, was the first African-American performer of the role of Othello in a white company (New York). In the early 1930s, he came to the USSR with his white American pianist wife. The Soviet Union became his second home. In 1938, he graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts (directing department), worked at the Meyerhold Theatre, and appeared in many Soviet films. He was a regular actor in Soviet cinema at a time when communication with foreign countries was virtually nonexistent, and a black man on the street would draw a crowd of onlookers.
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1947
Without Prejudice
Movie Chief Oor - black friend Miklouho-Maclay
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1946
A Captain at Fifteen
Movie Hercules - servant
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1936
Circus
Movie Cameo
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1934
The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
Movie The worker (uncredited)
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1934
Nastenka Ustinova
Movie Jazz conductor (uncredited)
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1933
The Great Consoler
Movie Black convict
