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Laurence Criner

Laurence Criner

American actor

Laurence Criner (19 July 1898 – 8 March 1965) born John Laurence Criner, occasionally credited as J. Lawrence Criner, was an actor in the United States. An African-American, he had numerous film roles including as the male lead and star.

Poster for The Flying Ace

He was a member of the Lafayette Players and worked at Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida where he starred in two of their race films. He later worked at African American studio Million Dollar Productions[1]

Poster for Black Gold (1928 film)

The Smithsonian Institution has a lobby card for The Flying Ace.[2] The Library of Congress has a movie poster of Life Goes On that features an insetimage of Criner.[3] The National Museum of African American History has a herald for Flying Ace.[4]

Theater

  • Meek Mose (1928), credited as J. Lawrence Criner

Filmography

References

  1. [1]
    "Laurence Criner – Norman Studios".
  2. [2]
    https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection/search?edan_q=*:*&edan_fq[]=p.edanmdm.indexedstructured.name:%22Colvin,+George%22&edan_local=1&op=Search
  3. [3]
    "Life goes on". Library of Congress.
  4. [4]
    "Herald for the Flying Ace".
  5. [5]
    Pitts, Michael R. (January 10, 2014). Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457663 – via Google Books.
  6. [6]
    T, Ian (April 28, 2017). "Forgotten Actors: Laurence Criner".
  7. [7]
    "Gang War (1940) | UC Berkeley Library". www.lib.berkeley.edu.
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