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Credits in the database:
Performance
Gore Vidal's The Best Man

				[Broadway, Broadway Revival, 2012]

					Ex-President Arthur Hockstader
Driving Miss Daisy

				[West End, London Production, 2011]

					Hoke Colburn
Driving Miss Daisy

				[Broadway, Original Broadway Production, 2010]

					Hoke Colburn
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

				[Broadway, Broadway Revival, 2008]

					Big Daddy
On Golden Pond

				[Broadway, Broadway Revival, 2005]

					Norman Thayer, Jr.
Fences

				[Broadway, , 1987]

					Troy Maxson
"MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys

				[Broadway, , 1982]

					Sam
Othello

				[Broadway, , 1982]

					Othello
A Lesson From Aloes

				[Broadway, Original Broadway Production, 1980]

					Steve Daniels
Paul Robeson

				[Broadway, Original Broadway Production, 1978]

					Paul Robeson
Of Mice and Men

				[Broadway, , 1974]

					Lennie
The Iceman Cometh

				[Broadway, , 1973]

					Theodore Hickman (Hickey)
King Lear

				[Off-Broadway, , 1973]

					Lear
The Cherry Orchard

				[Off-Broadway, , 1972]

					Lopahin
Hamlet

				[Off-Broadway, , 1972]

					Claudius
Les Blancs

				[Broadway, , 1970]

					Tshembe Matoseh
Boesman and Lena

				[Off-Broadway, , 1970]

					Boesman
The Great White Hope

				[Broadway, , 1968]

					Jack Jefferson
A Hand is on the Gate

				[Broadway, Original Broadway Production, 1966]

					Performer
Danton's Death

				[Broadway, , 1965]

					Performer
Troilus and Cressida

				[Off-Broadway, , 1965]

					Ajax
Coriolanus

				[Off-Broadway, , 1965]

					Junius Brutus
Baal

				[Off-Broadway, , 1965]

					Ekart
Othello

				[Off-Broadway, , 1964]

					Othello
Othello

				[Off-Broadway, , 1964]

					Othello
The Blood Knot

				[Off-Broadway, , 1964]

					Zachariah Pieterson
Next Time I'll Sing to You

				[Off-Broadway, , 1963]

					Rudge
The Love Nest

				[Off-Broadway, , 1963]

					George Gulp
P.S. 193

				[Off-Broadway, , 1962]

					Mario Saccone
The Merchant of Venice

				[Off-Broadway, , 1962]

					Prince of Morocco
The Apple

				[Off-Broadway, , 1961]

					Performer
Clandestine on the Morning Line

				[Off-Broadway, , 1961]

					Performer
The Blacks: A Clown Show

				[Off-Broadway, , 1961]

					Deodatus Village
The Cool World

				[Broadway, , 1960]

					Harrison Thurston
Sunrise at Campobello

				[Broadway, , 1958]

					Edward
Infidel Caesar

				[Broadway, , ]

					Performer
Production
The Cherry Orchard

			[Off-Broadway, 1972]
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Performance
Paul Robeson

					[Televised Stage Performance, 1979] 

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Personal Information

					

						

							Date Of Birth:
January 17, 1931

Birth Place:
Arkabutla, MS, USA

Gender: Male
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