Ernest Trimingham

Ernest Trimmingham (1880 – 1942), often misspelled as Trimingham, was an actor on stage and screen from the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.[1] He was one of the first black actors in British cinema. Trimningham is a common, but exclusively white, surname in Bermuda connected with an affluent merchant family,[2] and it is likely that Ernest adopted it when he became an actor. He was born in Bermuda in 1880, and died in England on 2 February 1942.[3][4]

Filmography
  • The Adventures of Dick Turpin (1912), a British and Colonial Film Company release
  • Jack, Sam and Pete (1919) as Pete[1]

References
  1. "Black voices in silent cinema | Sight & Sound". BFI.
  2. THE TRIMINGHAM FAMILY in Bermuda Anne Field (Anne Healy's Genealogy)
  3. "Ernest Trimingham". IMDb.
  4. says, Deirdre Osborne (December 28, 2010). "Bermuda Ernest Trimingham Earl Cameron Royal National Theatre".


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