1938 , 23 juin , New York , Etats-Unis : l'acteur noir américain ROBERT EARL JONES ( 1910 - 2006 ) , dans Langston Hughes '' ne voulez pas être libre ' , portrait de Carl VAN VECHTEN ( 1880 - 1964 ). Robert Earl Jones était le père de l'acteur James Earl Jones ( né en 1931 . ) Jones, un abandon scolaire, était un sharrecropper, et un prizefighter de boxe avant de faire son chemin, via Chicago, à New York City et une carrière sur scène et dans le film. Sous le nom de 'lutte contre Bill Stovall', il était un partenaire de Joe Louis . Dans l'ensemble, Jones est apparu dans plus de vingt films, dont le Cotton Club

• Contributeur: ARCHIVIO GBB / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2PBFW06
• Taille du fichier: 50,1 MB (2,1 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3698 x 4736 px | 31,3 x 40,1 cm | 12,3 x 15,8 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 1938

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1938 , 23 june , New York , USA : The black american actor ROBERT EARL JONES ( 1910 - 2006 ) , in Langston Hughes ' " Don't you want to be free " , portrait by Carl VAN VECHTEN ( 1880 - 1964 ). Robert Earl Jones was the father of actor James Earl Jones ( born in 1931 . )Jones, a grade-school dropout, was a sharecropper, and boxing prizefighter before making his way, via Chicago, to New York City and a career on stage and in film. Under the name "Battling Bill Stovall", he was a sparring partner of Joe Louis . Altogether Jones appeared in more than twenty films, including The Cotton Club (1984) and The Sting (1973). Jones was a living link with the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career. In New York in the 1930s, after a short career as a prize fighter in Chicago where champion Joe Louis used him as a sparring partner, Jones worked with young people on the Works Progress Administration, the largest New Deal agency, through which he met Langston Hughes, who cast him in his 1938 play, Don't You Want to Be Free - TEATRO - THEATRE - THEATER - attore teatrale di colore - ritratto - bretelle - MOVIE - CINEMA ---NOT FOR PUBBLICITARY USE --- NON PER USO PUBBLICITARIO --- NOT FOR GADGET USE -- ---- ARCHIVIO GBB

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