Earl Cameron (actor)

Earl Cameron, CBE is a Bermudian actor. Along with Cy Grant, he is known as one of the first black actors to break the colour bar in the United Kingdom. According to Screenonline, Earl Cameron brought a breath of fresh air to the British film industrys stuffy depictions of race relations. Often cast as a sensitive outsider, Cameron gave his characters a grace and moral authority that often surpassed the films compromised liberal agendas. He also had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner, and The Andromeda Breakthrough.

Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda. As a young man, he joined the British Merchant Navy, and sailed mostly between New York and South America. When the Second World War broke out he found himself stranded in London, arriving on the ship The Eastern Prince onOctober 1939. As he himself put it in an interview for The Royal Gazette newspaper I arrived in London onOctober 1939. I got involved with a young lady and you know the rest. The ship left without me, and the girl walked out too.

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