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Personal life. St. Jacques was a lifelong bachelor. [6] In August 1969, ... In a 1973 interview, St. Jacques said that Raymond, Jr was living in Boston. [2]
In 1961, he received an Obie award for distinguished performance for his role in Jean Genet's The Blacks, in a cast that also included James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou and Raymond St. Jacques. He made his Broadway debut in the original production of Herman Wouk's 1957 play Nature's Way. [11]
David Rowe (St. Jacques) is a white district attorney who must now live his life as a black man. His wife Margaret (Oliver) tries to deal with the transformation of her husband's appearance as David feels the stings of racial prejudice for the first time. She has trouble being intimate with the man she knows is still her husband.
Otis E. Young (July 4, 1932 – October 12, 2001) was an American actor and writer. He co-starred in a television Western, The Outcasts (1968–1969), with Don Murray.Young was the second African-American actor to co-star in a television Western, the first being Raymond St Jacques on the final season of Rawhide in 1965.
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 American neo-noir [2] action comedy film [3] co-written and directed by Ossie Davis and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx. [4] The film, later cited as an early example of the blaxploitation genre, is based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name. [5]
The story spans four days in the life of Robert "Bob" Jones, a newcomer to Los Angeles from Ohio. With some college education, he works as a crew leader in a naval shipyard. In this period, black workers are gaining opportunities in the defense industry as a result of executive orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.
Seeing through Moses's confidence tricks is an educated African, Ubi (Raymond St. Jacques). Ubi initially wishes to team up with Moses to con other Africans, but then attempts to steal Moses's show with a concealed flame thrower that has unexpectedly disastrous consequences for Ubi.
If He Hollers, Let Him Go! is a 1968 American neo noir crime film written and directed by Charles Martin (1910-1983), [1] based on the 1945 novel of the same title by Chester Himes.