Blue Washington was born on February 12, 1898 in Los Angeles, California, as Edgar Hughes Washington. He was an actor, known for There It Is (1928), Beggars of Life (1928) and Haunted Gold (1932). He was married to Marion Lenán. He died on September 15, 1970, at Mira Loma Hospital in Lancaster, California. He was laid to rest at Evergreen Memorial Park in Los Angeles. His son, Kenny Washington, was buried beside him in 1971.
Edgar ‘Blue’ Washington was also a ballplayer in the Negro League for the Los Angeles White Sox and (briefly) the Kansas City Monarchs.
He was a childhood friend of Frank Capra and appeared as John Wayne’s sidekick in Haunted Gold (1932), but it wasn’t always clear he was headed for Hollywood. He played professional baseball in the 1910s and 1920s for two of the most glamorous African American teams in existence, and for a time it must have seemed obvious that this was his vocation. In the end he chose a different path. It certainly wasn’t easier — Hollywood at that time was only marginally more accepting of black contributions than the white major leagues. The nickname ‘Blue’ came from Frank Capra, one of his best pals in the ethnically diverse surroundings of Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles.
Blue Washington Biography / Wiki
| Name | Blue Washington |
| Also Know | Edgar Hughes Washington, Edgar ‘Blue’ Washington, Edgar Washington Blue, Edgar Blue |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1898-02-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1970-09-15 |
Blue Washington Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Beggars of Life | Black Mose | 1928-09-22 | After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, qu… |
| There It Is | The Butler | 1928-01-01 | When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced … |
| The Phantom City | ‘Blue’ | 1928-12-27 | A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are … |
| Lucky Larkin | Hambone | 1930-03-02 | Colonel Lee, a homesteader, is the object of terrorists who want to drive him off the range so that his horses cannot be entered in the county races, … |
| Rowdy Ann | The Train Porter | 1919-05-24 | Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she’ll come back a lady…. |
| Bomba, the Jungle Boy | Native Bearer | 1949-03-20 | George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming … |
| Haunted Gold | Clarence Washington Brown | 1932-12-17 | John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan a… |
| Parade of the West | Sambo | 1930-01-19 | Bud Rand, a cowboy who is charged with the care of Little Billy Rand, accepts an offer to appear with Copeland’s Wild West Show to ride a horse called… |
| Black Magic | Unit | 1929-07-06 | On a South Seas island, “three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the thre… |
| Haunted Spooks | Butler (uncredited) | 1920-03-14 | After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to s… |
| The Blood Ship | Negro | 1927-07-18 | A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadisti… |
| Pinky | Minor Role | 1949-09-28 | Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her g… |
| Guilty Hands | Johnny (uncredited) | 1931-08-22 | A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover…. |
| The Smart Set | Polo Fan | 1928-03-24 | A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England…. |
| Menace | Kenya Manservant | 1934-11-22 | A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother’s death…. |
| Welcome Danger | Thorne’s Henchman (uncredited) | 1929-10-12 | A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police…. |
| The Long Voyage Home | Black Cook on Glencairn | 1940-11-16 | The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays…. |
| Way Down South | Slave | 1939-07-21 | In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated… |
| Lady for a Night | Man Sitting Next to Chloe (uncredited) | 1942-01-05 | Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society…. |
| Weary River | Prisoner in Bathtub (uncredited) | 1929-02-10 | A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations … |
| Souls at Sea | Ship Slave (uncredited) | 1937-09-03 | Michael ‘Nuggin’ Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842…. |
| Twelve Crowded Hours | First Bartender (uncredited) | 1939-02-23 | An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders…. |
| Charlie Chan in Reno | Man in Line-Up | 1939-06-16 | Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specialize… |
| It Happened in Flatbush | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) | 1942-05-28 | A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser…. |
| Sundown | Askari Veteran (uncredited) | 1941-10-31 | Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans…. |
| A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Opera House Doorman (uncredited) | 1941-03-14 | Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as h… |
| King of the Arena | Sambo | 1933-06-01 | Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller’s Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but… |
| Tarzan and the Slave Girl | 1950-06-23 | The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief deci… | |
| The Light That Failed | Bit Part | 1939-12-24 | A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind…. |
| Road to Morocco | Nubian Slave (uncredited) | 1942-11-10 | Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar…. |
| Rose of Washington Square | Prisoner (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 | Rose Sargent, a Roaring ’20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble…. |
| Over the Wall | Convict Playing Guitar | 1938-04-02 | When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence…. |
| Kentucky | Bill | 1938-12-30 | Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with … |
| Gone with the Wind | Renegade’s Companion (uncredited) | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| Wells Fargo | Sam – Coachman | 1937-12-31 | In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres… |
Credit: TMDB
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