Preston, J. A

LC control no.	no 99044058
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Preston, J. A. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	1957-11-13
Place of birth	Washington (D.C.)
Profession or occupation	Motion picture actors and actresses Television actors and actresses African American actors
Special note	Not the same as: Preston, J. A. (John A.)
Found in	The court-martial of Jackie Robinson [VR] c1990: title frames (J.A. Preston) All-media guide WWW page, May 3, 1999 (J.A. Preston; black supporting actor; onscreen from the 70's) NN Theatre Div. files (J.A. Preston; James Preston; participated in American Theater Laboratory directed by Jerome Robbins, 1968; actor in Freeman, a play in two acts by Phillip Hayes Dean) Malcolm X discussion [VR] 1968 (James Preston; discusses black activists and the civil rights movement with Jerome Robbins as part of an American Theater Laboratory workshop) IMDb, viewed Feb. 16, 2017 (J.A. Preston; James Allen Preston; born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA on November 13, 1957; used initials J.A. rather than first name James because there was already a James Preston in Actors Equity when he sought to join the union in the 1970s; moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1976; has often been cast as a military officer or in a law enforcement role (police officer, lawyer, or judge); lives in retirement in Los Angeles, California, USA) Film Reference, viewed Feb. 16, 2017 (Narrator, Richard Wright: Black Boy, PBS, 1995)
Associated language	eng