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This is a list of former African-American child actors. These actors were aged 17 or less at the time they started acting but are currently 18 or over. The list also includes deceased child actors. Movies and/or TV series they appeared in are mentioned only if they were still a child at the time of filming.
Pages in category "African-American male child actors" The following 162 pages are in this category, out of 162 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of mostly U.S. American films about black girlhood. This age group can range from young children to those experiencing adolescence . These depictions are often called coming-of-age stories .
In a little West African village, an unusual boy named Kirikou is born, who can speak before birth and walk immediately after birth. After Kirikou's mother tells him that an evil sorceress, Karaba, has dried up their spring and eaten all the men of the village except for one, he decides to accompany the last warrior, his uncle, to visit her and try to stop her.
Bug Hall was just 9 when he beat out thousands of youngsters to land the iconic role of the freckle-faced, wiggly eared boy with a monster cowlick. Playing Alfalfa was Bug's first role, but ...
Morrison left the series when he was offered an opportunity to work with the Step Brothers act, a prominent black stage-and-film dance act. He was drafted into the army during World War II . After being discharged, he was offered a part in The Bowery Boys , the successor to the East Side Kids that was just being launched, but he declined the offer.
Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali.
These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities. This list also includes comparably economically disenfranchised and crime adjacent communities in other countries such as the UK and Canada.