Blue Washington

Known for ActingBorn 1898-02-11Died 1970-09-15Los Angeles, California, USA

Blue Washington was born on February 12, 1898 in Los Angeles, California, as Edgar Hughes Washington. He was an actor, known for There It Is (1928), Beggars of Life (1928) and Haunted Gold (1932). He was married to Marion Lenán. He died on September 15, 1970, at Mira Loma Hospital in Lancaster, California. He was laid to rest at Evergreen Memorial Park in Los Angeles. His son, Kenny Washington, was buried beside him in 1971. Edgar 'Blue' Washington was also a ballplayer in the Negro League for the Los Angeles White Sox and (briefly) the Kansas City Monarchs. He was a childhood friend of Frank Capra and appeared as John Wayne’s sidekick in Haunted Gold (1932), but it wasn’t always clear he was headed for Hollywood. He played professional baseball in the 1910s and 1920s for two of the most glamorous African American teams in existence, and for a time it must have seemed obvious that this was his vocation. In the end he chose a different path. It certainly wasn’t easier — Hollywood at that time was only marginally more accepting of black contributions than the white major leagues. The nickname 'Blue' came from Frank Capra, one of his best pals in the ethnically diverse surroundings of Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles.Read more

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King of the Arena

Lucky Larkin

Black Magic

A Virginia Courtship

Parade of the West

By Whose Hand?

Gone with the Wind

Rio Rita

The Hustler

Wyoming

The Haunted Ship

The Blood Ship

Pinky

Beggars of Life

Road to Morocco

Do Your Duty

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Happy Daze

There It Is

Rose of Washington Square

The Long Voyage Home

Tales of Manhattan

Souls at Sea

Charlie Chan in Reno

Way Down South

Menace

The Cowboy and the Lady

Haunted Spooks

Twelve Crowded Hours

Kentucky

Too Hot to Handle

Cleopatra

To the Ends of the Earth

The Smart Set

Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Guilty Hands

Roman Scandals

The Light That Failed

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

Weary River

Over the Wall

Sundown

Lady for a Night

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Wells Fargo

It Happened in Flatbush

The Phantom City

Rowdy Ann