Juano Hernández
Acting
Biography
An Afro-Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry.
Born: July 19, 1896
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Known For
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
St. Louis Blues
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
Intruder in the Dust
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
Kiss Me Deadly
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Ransom!
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
The Pawnbroker
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
The Breaking Point
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Sergeant Rutledge
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Stars in My Crown
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.
Trial
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Filmography
as Mealie Williamson
as Uncle Possum
as Ali Shar
as Mr. Smith
as Chief Mamora
as Juan Tomasso
as Chief Rauhuia
as Kalanumu
as King Loomis
as Sgt. Matthew Luke Skidmore
as James
as Yosef
as Tefatou
as Manu
as Romeo Jefferson
as Bernardo
as Oscar Loon
as Rev. Charles Handy
as Amugu
as Njogu - Oath Giver
as Jesse Chapman aka Uncle Jesse
as Judge Theodore Motley
as Josh
as Eddie Yeager
as Montezuma
as Wesley Park
as Uncle Famous Prill
as Art Hazzard
as Lucas Beauchamp
as Dr. Ramirez
as Ricardo Calader
as Neighbor (uncredited)
as John Arthur
as Rev. Bryson
as Cop
as Gomez
as Revolutionary Soldier (uncredited)