Carl Wright
Actor, Film actor
1932 – 2007
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Who was Carl Wright?
Carl Wright was an American tap dancer, actor, and comedian whose late life acting credits included Soul Food, Barbershop, and Big Momma's House. For several years, Wright teamed up with Chicago radio legend Pervis Spann playing a misguided and mischievous reverend on his Chicago television show, "Blues and More".
Born in Orlando, Florida, he toured as a tap dancer as a young man, and for a time performed as The Three-Leggers with a one-legged partner. Wright died of cancer at his home in Chicago.
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1932
Orlando - Spouses
- Shirley Wright
(1954 - 2007/05/19)
- Shirley Wright
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Orlando
- Died
- May 19, 2007
Chicago
Submitted
on July 23, 2013