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Raymond St. Jacques (born James Arthur Johnson; March 1, 1930 – August 27, 1990) was an American actor, director and producer whose career spanned over thirty years on stage, film and television. St. Jacques is noted as the first African-American actor to appear in a regular role on a Western series.
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.
Raymond St. Jacques is noted as the first African-American to portray a cowboy on television. [6] [7] His mother Nina Hobbs, sang with jazz bandleaders Count Basie and Duke Ellington. [4] St. Jacques played basketball in high school and went to school with actress Judy Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft in Hollywood. [4]
Book of Numbers is a 1973 American crime film directed by and starring Raymond St. Jacques.It was produced by AVCO Embassy Pictures, and is the story of two black waiters who team up in El Dorado, Arkansas to run a numbers racket among the poor and working class black community in the 1930s.
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]
Come Back, Charleston Blue is a 1972 American crime comedy film starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques, loosely based on Chester Himes' novel The Heat's On. It is a sequel to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem.
The Evil That Men Do is a 1984 American action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher and José Ferrer.The film is adapted by R. Lance Hill (under the alias ‘David Lee Henry’) and John M. Crowther from Hill’s 1978 novel of the same title.
Raymond St. Jacques as James Lake; Kevin McCarthy as Leslie Whitlock; Barbara McNair as Lily; Arthur O'Connell as Prosecutor; John Russell as Sheriff; Ann Prentiss as Thelma Wilson; Royal Dano as Carl Blair