Robert Adams (actor)
Year Title Role
1935 Sanders of the River Minor Role
1935 Midshipman Easy Mesty
1936 Song of Freedom Monty
1937 King Solomon 's Mines Twala
1938 Old Bones of the River Bosambo
1944 It Happened One Sunday Gorilla Jim
1944 Dreaming Nubian Slave
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra Nubian Slave
1946 Men of Two Worlds Kisenga
1951 Old Mother Riley 's Jungle Treasure Chief 'Stinker '
1951 Follow the Sun Golf Pro
1959 Sapphire Horace Big Cigar
1960 The Criminal Judas
Filmography
Robert Adams (1906-1965) was a British Guyanese actor of stage and screen. He was the founder and director of the Negro Repertory Arts Theatre, one of the first professional black theatre companies in Britain, and became Britain's first black television actor when he appeared in Theatre Parade: Scenes From Hassan on BBC TV in 1937. He was also the first Black actor to play a Shakespearian role on television (the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice), in 1947.