| LC control no. | n 85376628 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Caesar, Adolph, 1933-1986 |
| Variant(s) | Caesar, Adolph, d. 1986 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19331205 |
| Death date | 19860306 |
| Place of birth | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | New York University Negro Ensemble Company Lincoln Center Theater (New York, N.Y.) Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles Minnesota Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Minn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Actors Voice actors and actresses |
| Found in | A Soldier's story [MP] 1984: cast (Adolph Caesar) NY Times Mar. 7, 1986 obit. (Adolph Caesar died ... 1986 at 52 years old) Wikipedia, July 19, 2013 (Adolph Caesar; American actor; born December 5, 1933 in Harlem, New York City, New York; died March 6, 1986 in Los Angeles, California; he appeared in director Norman Jewison's film, A Soldier's Story, for which he received a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role from both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes; he also played the role of "Old Mister" in the Steven Spielberg film, The Color Purple and appeared in Fist of Fear, Touch of Death; in addition to his film career, Caesar did voice-over work for television and radio commercials, including theatrical previews and radio commercials for many blaxploitation films such as Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, Truck Turner and The Spook Who Sat by the Door; Caesar also lent his voice to the popular 80s cartoon Silverhawks; he played Hotwing, a magician and skilled illusionist; Caesar's last completed film was Club Paradise, released posthumously; Caesar was working on the Los Angeles set of the 1986 film, Tough Guys (with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas) when he suffered a heart attack and died a short time later) African American National Biography, accessed January 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Caesar, Adolph; actor; born 05 December 1933 in Harlem, New York, United States; graduated from New York University (1962); performed with Lincoln Center Repertory Company, Inner City Theater and Center Theater Group in Los Angeles and Minnesota Theater Company; worked with Negro Ensemble Company (1970); played Sergeant Walters in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Soldier's play for negro ensemble company, and in its film version A Soldier's Story (1985); won an Obie (1981) and a New York Drama Desk Award (1982); received a Los Angeles Film Critics Award; died 06 March 1986 in New York, New York, United States) |
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