Earl Cameron

Earl Cameron

Earlston Jewitt Cameron, CBE (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a Bermudian actor who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. After appearing on London's West End stage, he became one of the first black stars in the British film industry.With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.According to Screenonline, "Earl Cameron brought a breath of fresh air to the British film industry's stuffy depictions of race relations. Often cast as a sensitive outsider, Cameron gave his characters a grace and moral authority that often surpassed the films' compromised liberal agendas."He starred alongside Sean Connery in Thunderball (1965). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Earl Cameron has received more than 165,389 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Earl Cameron is the 4,589th most popular actor (down from 2,197th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Bermuda and the 4th most popular Bermudian Actor.