Ernie Morrison
Child Actor, Film actor
1912 – 1989
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Who was Ernie Morrison?
Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison was an American child actor who performed under the stage name "Sunshine Sammy." Morrison was the only black member of the East Side Kids, and was also an original Our Gang kid, a sidekick to Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard, a silent screen comedian, a vaudevillian, a dancer, and band leader.
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- Born
- Dec 20, 1912
New Orleans - Also known as
- Frederick Ernest Morrison
- Sunshine Sambo
- Sambo
- Little Sambo
- Sunshine Sammy Morrisson
- Sunshine Sammy Morrison
- Sunshine Sammy
- Sammy Morrison
- Smiling Sambo
- L'Afrique
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 24, 1989
Lynwood - Resting place
- Inglewood Park Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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