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Madame Sul-Te-Wan is a Actor American born on 7 march 1873 at Louisville (USA)

Madame Sul-Te-Wan

Madame Sul-Te-Wan
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Birth name Nellie Crawford
Nationality USA
Birth 7 march 1873 at Louisville (USA)
Death 1 february 1959 (at 85 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Madame Sul-Te-Wan (born Nellie Crawford; March 7, 1873 – February 1, 1959) was an American stage, film and television actress. The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the East Coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community. She became known as a character actress, appeared in high profile films such as Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), and easily navigated the transition to the "talkies."

Her career spanned over five decades, and, in 1986, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Sul-Te-Wan was the first African American actor, male or female, to sign a film contract and be a featured performer.

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Filmography of Madame Sul-Te-Wan (33 films)

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Actress

The Buccaneer, 2h
Directed by Anthony Quinn, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens, Henry Hull
Roles Good Luck Charm Vendor
Rating63% 3.198963.198963.198963.198963.19896
Installé à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle toute la région, et tente de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Mais son amour pour la fille du gouverneur Clairborne va l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
Tarzan and the Trappers
Directed by Charles F. Haas, H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Scatman Crothers, Maurice Marsac, Bruce Lester
Roles Witch Woman
Rating48% 2.406492.406492.406492.406492.40649
The idyllic jungle life of Tarzan (Gordon Scott), Jane (Eve Brent) and Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) is interrupted by a drum message telling them of predatory hunters loose in the jungle. Tarzan disrupts the animal-collecting expedition of the hunters, Schroeder (Lesley Bradley) and Rene (Maurice Marsac); he frees a baby elephant whose mother they have killed and then leads the elephant herd against them when they make hostages of Tartu and Cheeta the chimp. Afterwards he warns off two other hunters, Sikes (Saul Gorse) and Lapin (William Keene), seeking to plunder the lost city of Zarbo. He is attacked by their men, but escapes and shadows their party. Aware of Tarzan's continued presence, the hunters capture his native friend Tyana (Sherman Crothers), and trap the ape man when he tries to free him. Tyana's tribe rescues the two. Finally, the hunters reach Zarbo, but find it empty of both people and treasure. In a final conflict, Tarzan overcomes the villains, who are then turned over to the authorities by the natives.
Something of Value, 1h53
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernández, William Horace Marshall
Roles Midwife (Uncredited)
Rating64% 3.242953.242953.242953.242953.24295
Kikuyu tribal members work on Henry McKenzie's farm in 1940s Kenya. Two young men, Kenyan native Kimani and Henry's son Peter, have grown up together, almost like brothers.
Band of Angels, 2h5
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist II, Patric Knowles, Rex Reason
Roles Flower Vendor (Uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2461553.2461553.2461553.2461553.246155
Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is raised as the privileged white daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat ride there, he makes it clear that he intends to sleep with her, but desists when she tries to hang herself; as a beautiful, cultured young woman who can pass for white, she is far too valuable to risk losing.
Carmen Jones, 1h45
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films based on operas, Children's films
Actors Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Roy Glenn, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters
Roles Hagar – Carmen's Grandmother (Uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3445053.3445053.3445053.3445053.344505
Set during World War II, the story focuses on Carmen Jones, a vixen who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina. When she is arrested for fighting with a co-worker who reported her for arriving late for work, foreman Sgt. Brown assigns young soldier Joe to deliver her to the authorities, much to the dismay of Joe's fiancée Cindy Lou, who had agreed to marry him during his leave.
Mighty Joe Young, 1h33
Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Nestor Paiva
Roles Young Family Servant (Uncredited)
Rating69% 3.492743.492743.492743.492743.49274
In 1937 Tanganyika Territory, Africa, eight-year-old Jill Young (Lora Lee Michel) is living with her father on his ranch. While in her yard, two Africans come by with an orphaned baby gorilla; Jill so wants a pet that she trades her toys and money for him, vowing to always care for the gorilla.
Thank Your Lucky Stars, 2h4
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Bit in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3931453.3931453.3931453.3931453.393145
Theater producers (Horton and Sakall) staging a wartime charity program, only to have the production taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).
Revenge of the Zombies, 1h1
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele, Mantan Moreland, Veda Ann Borg
Roles Beulah
Rating47% 2.3693852.3693852.3693852.3693852.369385
After the death of Max's (John Carradine) wife Lila (Veda Ann Borg), he holds a funeral for her. However, he has also turned her into a zombie. He is amazed when Lila show signs of free will and challenges him for control. In the excitement Dr. Keating (Barry Macollum) goes missing after entering a tomb which should not have been entered.
Mokey
Mokey (1942)

Directed by Wells Root
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Donna Reed, Dan Dailey, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, George Lloyd, Matt Moore, Robert Blake
Roles Miss Cully, Old Black Woman (Uncredited)
Rating49% 2.4827152.4827152.4827152.4827152.482715
Sullivan's Travels, 1h30
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Jimmy Conlin, Franklin Pangborn
Roles Church Harmonium Player (Uncredited)
Rating78% 3.94563.94563.94563.94563.9456
John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a popular young Hollywood director of profitable but shallow comedies (e.g. Ants in Your Plants of 1939). Sullivan is dissatisfied despite his success and tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand (Robert Warwick) that he wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtrodden. He asks to make his next film an adaptation of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a socially-conscious novel. Lebrand wants him to direct another lucrative comedy instead, but the idealistic Sullivan refuses to give in. He wants to "know trouble" first-hand, and plans to travel as a tramp so he can return and make a film that truly depicts the sorrows of humanity. His butler (Robert Greig) and valet (Eric Blore) openly question the wisdom of his plan.
King of the Zombies, 1h7
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer, Guy Usher
Roles Tahama
Rating52% 2.6032.6032.6032.6032.603
During World War II, a Capelis XC-12 plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily frightened manservant (Mantan Moreland) soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies, and confirms this with some of the doctor's hired help. Exploring, the three stumble upon a voodoo ritual being conducted in the cellar, where the doctor, who is in reality a foreign spy, is trying to acquire war intelligence from a captured US Admiral whose plane had crashed in a similar fashion on the island. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their master.
Maryland
Maryland (1940)
, 1h32
Directed by Norman Foster, Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne, Charles Ruggles, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Naomi
Rating60% 3.0488053.0488053.0488053.0488053.048805
After her husband dies, wealthy Charlotte Danfield sells off his entire stable of horses and forbids son Lee to ride again.