Filmacteur

* 26.2.26, 1933, New York, NY - †  29.11.1976, Hollywood, CA

Education:     CCNY

Heavyset (sometimes overweight), black player who began his career off-Broadway in Take a Giant Step (1956) and won acclaim, and an Obie Award, for his performance in the all-star production of Jean Genet's The Blacks (1961) in which he played a black man who is transformed into an aged white woman. Adept at both ironic comedy and serious drama, Cambridge often starred in films with racial themes including the satirical WATERMELON MAN (1970) as a white bigot who wakes up to find himself suddenly turned into a black man. Cambridge, who was also memorable in THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST (1967) and COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970), died of a heart attack on the set of a TV movie in which he was playing Idi Amin Dada.

Filmography Godfrey Cambridge

1963   GONE ARE THE DAYS/PURLIE VICTORIOUS

1964   THE TROUBLEMAKER

1967   THE BUSY BODY      

1967   THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST

1968   THE BIGGEST BUNDLE OF THEM ALL        

1968   BYE BYE BRAVERMAN

1970   COTTON COMES TO HARLEM        

1970   WATERMELON MAN  

1972   BEWARE! THE BLOB/SON OF BLOB 

1972   THE BISCUIT EATER 

1972   COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE    

1973   FIVE ON THE BLACK HAND SIDE    

1975   FRIDAY FOSTER      

1975   WHIFFS       

1977   SCOTT JOPLIN