Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge was an American standup comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time magazine in 1965 as one of the countrys four most celebrated Negro comedians.

Cambridge was born Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge in New York City, New York on February 26, 1933 to Alexander and Sarah Cambridge, who were immigrants from British Guiana. His parents, dissatisfied with the New York Public School System, sent him to live with his grandparents in Sydney, Nova Scotia during his primary school years. When he was 13, Cambridge moved back to New York and attended Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens.

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