Clinton Rosemond
Clinton Rosemond was an American singer and actor. Born Cresent Clinton Rosemond, he served as a private in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War, and he later sang in the Southern Trio with John C. Payne and Mabel Mercer in the 1920s. The group was based in England and specialized in a cappella. Rosemond went on to act in American films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Often uncredited and typecast as a butler or servant due to a lack of film roles for African-American actors, he was frequently relegated to playing demeaning parts, such as a stereotypical "scared Negro". Rosemond died in 1966 from a stroke.
He and his wife Corinne had two daughters, Eleanor Alsobrooks, an educator, and Bertha Hope-Booker, a musician, and a son Clinton, a city planner.
Only the Brave - The Butler The Mask of Fu Manchu - Slave No Man of Her Own - Porter Carolina - Singer, along with Beulah Hall Hearts in Bondage - Jordan's Servant The Green Pastures - ProphetDark Manhattan - Ben Jones They Won't Forget - Tump RedwineHollywood Hotel - Colored ManAccidents Will Happen - Man Getting Arm Broken The Toy Wife - PompeyYoung Dr. Kildare - Conover Stand up and Fight - EnochCalling Dr. Kildare - ConoverGolden Boy - Chocolate Drop's Father Midnight Shadow - Mr. Dan WilsonDark Command - Tom - McClouds' Servant Safari - MikeMaryland - Brother Dickey Santa Fe Trail - Black Man on Train Blossoms in the Dust - ZekeBelle Starr - Black Man on Bench Badlands of Dakota - Grayson's Butler The Vanishing Virginian - Black Minister Syncopation - Professor Topeka Yankee Doodle Dandy - White House Butler Are Husbands Necessary? - EnosCabin in the Sky - Doctor I Walked with a Zombie - Coachman I Dood It - Actor in Play as Uncle Sig Is Everybody Happy? - Doorman Flesh and Fantasy - Elderly Man Heavenly Days - Servant Jungle Queen - GodacVoice of the Whistler - Train Porter Colonel Effingham's Raid - Servant Three Little Girls in Blue - Ben The Secret Heart - William The Homestretch - Black Man Sport of Kings - JosiahThe Burning Cross - Grandpa WestThe Story of Seabiscuit - Swipe Tonight We Sing - Father I Am Not Your Negro - clip of his role as Tump Redwine in "They Won't Forget".