Daniel L. Haynes (June 6, 1889 – July 28, 1954) was an American stage and film actor and clergyman. He is best known for starring as Zeke in the early all-black King Vidor directed film Halleljuah.[1][2] On November 28, 1910, he married Rosa Belle Sims in Chicago. In his last years, he left show business and became a full-time Baptist minister.[3] At the time of M-G-M's Hallelujah, Haynes is quoted as having said: "I cannot say what our race owes King Vidor and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer --- there are not words forceful enough for that. Hallelujah will, as Moses led his people from the wilderness, lead ours from the wilderness of misunderstanding and apathy."[4]

Daniel L. Haynes
Haynes in a stage presentation of Androcles and the Lion, Lafayette Theatre, NYC, 1938
Born	Daniel Leo (aka Louis) Haynes (1889-06-06)June 6, 1889 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	July 28, 1954(1954-07-28) (aged 65) Kingston, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston
Occupation	actor; minister of the gospel
Spouse	Rosa Belle Sims

Selected filmography

• John Smith (1922)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• The Last Mile (1932)
• Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
• So Red the Rose (1935)
• Escape from Devil's Island (1935)
• Fury (1936)

Theater

• Rang Tang (1927)

References

External links

• Daniel L. Haynes at IMDb
• Daniel L. Haynes at the Internet Broadway Database
• Daniel L. Haynes at AllMovie
• Daniel L. Haynes at KinoTV

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