William Fountaine (August 15, 1897 – December 6, 1945) was a film actor in the United States. He starred in Oscar Micheaux's 1922 film Uncle Jasper's Will, The Dungeon released the same year, and Deceit in 1923. He had a leading role in the well received 1929 musical film Hallelujah. According to an account of experiences filming the movie, Fountaine protested at bigoted dialogue he was supposed to say stating he "wouldn't be able to return to Harlem" if he repeated the lines in the script.[1]
Filmography
edit- Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)
- The Virgin of Seminole (1922)[2]
- The Dungeon (1922)[2] as Stephen Cameron
- Deceit (1923)[3]
- Hallelujah[4] (1929) as Hot Shot
References
edit- ^ Garcia, Desirée J. (August 1, 2014). The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813574271 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Moon, Spencer; Allen, Linda (May 7, 1997). Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 249. ISBN 9780313298301 – via Google Books.
- ^ Platt, David (May 7, 1992). Celluloid Power: Social Film Criticism from the Birth of a Nation to Judgment at Nuremberg. Scarecrow Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780810824423 – via Google Books.
- ^ Quigley, Martin; Gertner, Richard (May 7, 1970). "Films in America, 1929–1969". Golden Press. p. 21 – via Google Books.
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