Lawrence Chenault
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 23, 1877
Known For
Body and Soul
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
The Crimson Skull
To rid the range of a gang of outlaws that are rustling cattle and robbing the banks and stagecoaches, cowhand Bob Calem, working on the gang-leader's superstitions, dons a skeleton-costume to strike fear into the gang.
Ten Nights in a Barroom
A man pursues the vice lord who killed his daughter, but his journey leads to self-discovery and the desire for a better life.
The Symbol of the Unconquered
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.
We Work Again
The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.
Veiled Aristocrats
A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.
The Scar of Shame
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.
Ten Minutes to Live
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.
Harlem After Midnight
Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.
The Burden of Race
A young college educated black man meets a girl of Asian descent and falls in love with her. Their love story was caught up with events burdened up by a racial animosity.
Filmography
as Doctor
as Harold Stokes: The Godfather
as Judge Straight
as Ralph Hathaway
as Simon Slade
as Yello-Curley' Hinds - the Phony Reverend's Former Jailmate
as Bob Calem
as Sadness
as Anthony Brisbane
as Jefferson Driscoll
as Herbert Lanyon