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With roles in everything from Stanley Kubrick's crime caper "The Killing" to the political psychodrama "The Manchurian Candidate," James Edwards helped pave the way for African-American actors in Hollywood. His prolific career spanned over 20 years in both film and television, and even included several stints as a staff writer on popular TV anthologies such as "Fireside Theater." One of ...

Filmography

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Opal Dreams (2006)

Doomsday Voyage (1972)

Federal officer

Sgt. William George Meeks

The Young Runaways (1968)

Sgt. Joe Collyer

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

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Sandpiper, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Think Of All Those Renaissance Cats

Phenix City Story, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Having A Turtle Race

Biography

With roles in everything from Stanley Kubrick's crime caper "The Killing" to the political psychodrama "The Manchurian Candidate," James Edwards helped pave the way for African-American actors in Hollywood. His prolific career spanned over 20 years in both film and television, and even included several stints as a staff writer on popular TV anthologies such as "Fireside Theater." One of Edwards' earliest roles as young WWII soldier Peter Moss in the 1949 drama "Home of the Brave" became his most enduring; other notable performances came in the critically acclaimed biopic "Patton," and the Korean War drama "The Steel Helmet."

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Opal Dreams (2006)

Doomsday Voyage (1972)

Federal officer

Sgt. William George Meeks

The Young Runaways (1968)

Sgt. Joe Collyer

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

The Sandpiper (1965)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Corporal Melvin

Blood and Steel (1959)

Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Fräulein (1958)

Anna Lucasta (1958)

Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)

Battle Hymn (1957)

Lieutenant Maples

Men in War (1957)

The Killing (1956)

Seven Angry Men (1955)

The Phenix City Story (1955)

African Manhunt (1955)

Thunder Over Sangoland (1955)

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

The Joe Louis Story (1953)

[Jack] "Chappie" Blackburn

The Member of the Wedding (1953)

Honey Camden Brown

Bright Victory (1952)

The Steel Helmet (1951)

The Set-Up (1949)

Home of the Brave (1949)

Music (Feature Film)

Mad Cows (1999)

Song ("Female Of The Species")

I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)

The Real Blonde (1997)

Sugartime (1995)

Cry Baby (1990)

Housekeeping (1987)

Stranger's Kiss (1984)

Song ("Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)")

Slumber Party '57 (1976)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Space Marines (1996)

Life Events

Videos

Sandpiper, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Think Of All Those Renaissance Cats Big Sur artist and single mom Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) and friend Larry (James Edwards) are being rebuffed by gallery owner Ellie (Pamela Mason) when Hewitt (Richard Burton), priest and headmaster of the school where her son’s been sent, arrives with a generous attitude, in The Sandpiper< 1965.

Phenix City Story, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Having A Turtle Race Happy Alabama crime boss Tanner (Edward Andrews) and his sly aide Cassie (Jean Carson) are overseeing affairs at the "Poppy Club," as various characters are introduced in Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story, 1955.

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Can You See The Red Queen? By outward appearances Raymond (Laurence Harvey), returned Korean War POW, is doing well, here coming home to a letter from Corporal Melvin (James Edwards), then his first alarming phone call, proposing solitaire, in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962, from George Axelrod's screenplay.

Phenix City Story, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Shalt Not Kill Big spoiler here, as Paterson (Richard Kiley) and Zeke (James Edwards) who both had family members murdered, have failed to stop the thugs killing their informant Ellie, and clash over how to deal with the now-exposed local vice boss Tanner (Edward Andrews), in Phil Karlson’s fact-based The Phenix City Story, 1955.

Home Of The Brave (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Human Coyote Continuing the flashbacks detailing events leading to the mental breakdown of army surveyor Moss (James Edwards), we join him with TJ (Steve Brodie), cartographer Finch (Lloyd Bridges) and Mingo (Frank Lovejoy) on their secret mission on a Japanese-occupied island in WWII, in Home Of The Brave, 1949.

Home Of The Brave (1949) -- (Movie Clip) All Right For A White Man Army psychiatrist Jeff Corey is attempting narcosynthesis, which was a real experimental hypnosis technique, to try to help amnesiac paralyzed soldier Moss (James Edwards), recalling high school, where he first met comrade Finch (Lloyd Bridges), whom he doesn’t realize is dead, in producer Stanley Kramer’s Home Of The Brave, 1949.

Home Of The Brave (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Care If He Was Purple In flashback, Major Robinson (Douglas Dick) briefing his team (Steve Brodie, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy) about a difficult survey mission in the Pacific during WWII, when they meet their new man Moss (James Edwards), prompting a call to the colonel (Cliff Clark), in producer Stanley Kramer’s Home Of The Brave, 1949.

Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) You Another Re-Tread? Wounded Zack (Gene Evans) and sidekick "Short Round" (William Chun) encounter medic Thompson (James Edwards) after a lost battle in Korea in Samuel Fuller's Steel Helmet, 1951.

Caine Mutiny, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) There Ain't No More Strawberries Executive officer Maryk (Van Johnson) narrating from his diary, recording concerns about Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart), who launches his famous inquiry about fruit, alarming Keefer (Fred MacMurray) and others, James Edwards as Whittaker, in The Caine Mutiny, 1954.

Pork Chop Hill (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Got A Special Interest Scrambling across the hill, under attack, Lt. Clemons (Gregory Peck) assigns a task to disgruntled Franklin (Woody Strode), then changes his mind and asks Jurgens (James Edwards) to watch him instead, in Lewis Milestone’s Pork Chop Hill, 1959, from the book by the official Army historian S.L.A. Marshall.

Set-Up, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Go Home Early Two sections of Julie (Audrey Totter) on her long walk, skipping the fight, in between husband Stoker (Robert Ryan) in the locker room with defeated Tony (Philip Pine), Mickey (David Fresco) and Luther (James Edwards), in Robert Wise's The Set-Up, 1949.

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