Dooley Wilson

Movie Actor

Dooley Wilson was born in Tyler, Texas, United States on April 3rd, 1886 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 67, Dooley Wilson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Arthur Wilson
Date of Birth
April 3, 1886
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Tyler, Texas, United States
Death Date
May 30, 1953 (age 67)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Film Actor, Musician, Singer, Stage Actor
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Estelle Williams, (m. 19??; his death 1953)
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Dooley Wilson Life

Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor, singer, and guitarist who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film Casablanca; in the film, he also performed "As Time Goes By"; he is also known as Sam. Wilson, a drummer and singer, formed his own band in the 1920s, now touring nightclubs in London and Paris.

He began performing on Broadway and in a string of modest films in the 1930s.

His participation in Casablanca was by far his most well-known film, but other films included My Favorite Blonde (1942) with Bob Hope, Stormy Weather (1943) with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers (1951), and the Western Passage West (1951).

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Dooley Wilson Career

Early life and career

Arthur Wilson was born in Tyler, Texas, and was the youngest of five children. He began earning a living by performing in churches in Tyler at age seven, the year of his father's death. He was earning $18 a week from singing and playing in tent shows when he was eight years old. He was in Chicago with the Pekin Theatre, the country's first legitimate black theater. By that time, he had earned the nickname "Dooley" for his whiteface impersonation of an Irishman performing a song titled "Mr." "Dooley" is a play.

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Wilson appeared in the emerging African American theatre scene in 1914 and 1915, and with Charles Gilpin's stock company at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, and after World War II, he toured Europe with his own band, The Red Devils.

Wilson appeared in Conjur' Man Dies (1936) and other plays for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Theatre Unit, later under John Houseman's direction. With his portrayal of Little Joe in the Broadway musical Cabin in the Sky, he made his breakthrough role in 1940. This earned him a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. When his stage role in the MGM film version of Cabin in the Sky was played by Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, he found himself playing Pullman porters.

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Later life and career

Wilson appeared in Stormy Weather (1943), as Gabe Tucker, Bill Williamson's best friend (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson). After Cabin in the Sky, it was the second all-black cast motion picture produced by a major studio in the 1940s.

Wilson portrayed Pompey, an escaped slave, in the musical Bloomer Girl (1944–46). Dwight Blocker Bowers selected him for inclusion in a Smithsonian recordings compilation, American Musical Theatre, as his performance "The Eagle and Me" in this series. Wilson appeared on the television situation comedy Beulah from 1951 to 1952. Wilson served on the executive board of the Negro Actors Guild of America.

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