1938 , 23 . juni , New York , USA : der schwarze amerikanische Schauspieler ROBERT EARL JONES ( 1910 - 2006 ) , in Langston Hughes " Don't you want to be free " , Porträt von Carl VAN VECHTEN ( 1880 - 1964 ). Robert Earl Jones war der Vater des Schauspielers James Earl Jones ( geboren 1931 ) . Jones, ein Abbrecher der Grundschule, war ein Anteilseigner und Boxer, bevor er sich über Chicago nach New York City aufmachte und eine Karriere auf der Bühne und im Film machte. Unter dem Namen "Battling Bill Stovall" war er Sparringpartner von Joe Louis. Jones spielte insgesamt in mehr als zwanzig Filmen, darunter The Cotton Club

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• Format: 3702 x 4736 px | 31,3 x 40,1 cm | 12,3 x 15,8 inches | 300dpi
• Aufnahmedatum: 1938

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1938 , 23 june , New York , USA : The black american actor ROBERT EARL JONES ( 1910 - 2006 ) , in Langston Hughes ' " Don't you want to be free " , portrait by Carl VAN VECHTEN ( 1880 - 1964 ). Robert Earl Jones was the father of actor James Earl Jones ( born in 1931 . ) Jones, a grade-school dropout, was a sharecropper, and boxing prizefighter before making his way, via Chicago, to New York City and a career on stage and in film. Under the name "Battling Bill Stovall", he was a sparring partner of Joe Louis . Altogether Jones appeared in more than twenty films, including The Cotton Club (1984) and The Sting (1973). Jones was a living link with the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career. In New York in the 1930s, after a short career as a prize fighter in Chicago where champion Joe Louis used him as a sparring partner, Jones worked with young people on the Works Progress Administration, the largest New Deal agency, through which he met Langston Hughes, who cast him in his 1938 play, Don't You Want to Be Free - TEATRO - THEATRE - THEATER - attore teatrale di colore - ritratto - bretelle - MOVIE - CINEMA ---NOT FOR PUBBLICITARY USE --- NON PER USO PUBBLICITARIO --- NOT FOR GADGET USE ---- ARCHIVIO GBB

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