Percy Verwayne


Percy Verwayne, sometimes spelled Percy Verwayen,
was an American stage, vaudeville and film actor. He featured in several films with African American casts including the 1921 REOL Productions film The Call of His People and Oscar Micheaux films. He played "Sporting Life" in Porgy, when it was first produced in 1927. He was also in the 1946 Toddy Pictures production Fight That Ghost.

Biography

Verwayne was born in Georgetown, British Guyana, in 1895. The first movie Verwayne was known to have starred in was The Call of His People, which co-starred actors like Edna Morton, Lawrence Chenault, and Mercedes Gilbert. In 1924, Verwayne played a part in multiple vaudeville acts at the Dunbar Theatre, alongside Edna Lewis Thomas.

Theatre

  • Porgy
  • Confidence, by and starring Frank Wilson

    Filmography

  • The Call of His People
  • The Burden of Race
  • A Daughter of the Congo as Pidgy Muffy
  • Paradise in Harlem as Spanish
  • Fight that Ghost
  • Sepia Cinderella as MacMillan