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Edgar Hughes "Blue" Washington (12 February 1898 – 15 September 1970) was an American actor and baseball player who played in the Negro leagues from 1915 to 1920 as a pitcher and first baseman.[3]

Blue Washington
Born	February 26, 1898 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	September 15, 1970(1970-09-15) (aged 72) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1919–1961
Baseball player Baseball career
First Baseman / pitcher
Batted: Unknown Threw: Unknown
debut
1915, for the Chicago American Giants
Last appearance
1920, for the Kansas City Monarchs
Teams
Chicago American Giants (1915-1916)[1] Kansas City Monarchs (1920)[2]

Baseball career

Washington started his baseball career as a pitcher with the Chicago American Giants in 1915.[4] He remained with Chicago in 1916. He later played with the Kansas City Monarchs in 1920, appearing in 24 documented major league games.[5]

Acting career

He appeared in 74 films between 1919 and 1957, mostly playing small, uncredited roles as a porter, a bartender, an African native (as in King Kong (1933) and Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), a cook, a chauffeur, a ship's crew member, a Nubian slave, and a doorman. Some of his characters had names such as "Ulambo", "Sambo" (sambo) and "Hambone". In the 1933 film Haunted Gold, he portrayed Clarence, John Wayne's comic sidekick. He had uncredited appearances in Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939).[6]

Personal

Washington was the son of Susie Washington and had three siblings.[6] He became a boxer at age 14 with the stage name of "Kid Blue."[6] His separated from his partner Marian Lenàn when their son Kenny was two years old.[6]

He was given the nickname "Blue" by film director Frank Capra when both were kids. Washington's son, Kenny Washington, a standout athlete at UCLA where he was a teammate of Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier in the National Football League in 1946.

Filmography

References

Sources

• Atwood, Gretchen (September 6, 2016). Lost Champions: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 9781620406007. OCLC 956379043.

External links

• Blue Washington at IMDb
• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference and Seamheads

На других языках

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- [en] Blue Washington

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[ru] Вашингтон, Блу

Блу Вашингтон (англ. Blue Washington; 12 февраля 1898, Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния[1] — 15 сентября 1970 или 16 июля 1961[2], Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния[1]) — американский бейсболист[3], позднее — киноактёр.

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