Mantan Moreland

About Mantan Moreland

Who is it?: Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day: September 3, 1902
Birth Place: Monroe, Louisiana, USA

Mantan Moreland

Although his brand of humor has been reviled for decades, black character actor Mantan Moreland parlayed his cocky but...
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As per our current Database, Mantan Moreland has been died on 28 September, 1973 at Hollywood, California, USA.

🎂 Mantan Moreland - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Mantan Moreland die, Mantan Moreland was 71 years old.

Popular As Mantan Moreland
Occupation Actor
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born September 3, 1902 (Monroe, Louisiana, USA)
Birthday September 3
Town/City Monroe, Louisiana, USA
Nationality USA

🌙 Zodiac

Mantan Moreland’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Mantan Moreland was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.

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Although his brand of humor has been reviled for decades, black character actor Mantan Moreland parlayed his cocky but jittery character into a recognizable presence in the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in a long string of comedy thrillers .

. . and was considered quite funny at the time!Born just after the turn of the century in Louisiana, Mantan began running away from home at age 12 to join circuses and medicine shows, only to be brought back time and again.

During these times he sharpened his comic skills and developed routines and acts that eventually became popular on the vaudeville stage, or what was then called the "chitlin' circuit." A solo performer by nature, he often teamed up with other famous comics (such as Ben Carter) to keep working, and became a deft performer of "indefinite talk" routines, where two quicksilver comics continually topped each other in mid-sentence, as if reading each other's mind (i.

e., "Say, did you see...?" "Saw him just yesterday...didn't look so good"). Mantan's focus gradually shifted his trade toward film, where he initially appeared in servile bits (shoeshine men, porters, waiters).

However, his talent for making people laugh couldn't be overlooked and he soon earned featured status in Harlem-styled western parodies and grade "A" comedy films playing the superstitious, ever-terrified manservant running from any kind of impending doom.

Moreland's peak in movies came with his recurring role as Birmingham, the skittish chauffeur, in the "Charlie Chan" series, where he was forever forewarning his boss to stay away from an obviously dangerous case or situation.

Though haunted mansions were an ideal place for setting off his stereotyped character, Mantan would be haunted in a different way by this Hollywood success in years to follow. By the 1950s, racial attitudes began to change and, with the rise of the civil rights movement, what was once considered hilarious was now interpreted as demeaning and offensive to both blacks and whites.

Mantan and others, such as Stepin Fetchit, were ostracized and ridiculed by Hollywood for their past negative portrayals. It took decades for audiences to forgive and newer generations to forget the Depression-era comedy of Mantan Moreland in order for the actor to come back.

In the late 1960s he managed a modest resurgence on TV and in commercials and occasional films, allowing him to work again with such comic heavyweights as Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge and director Carl Reiner.

It was all too brief, however, for Mantan, long suffering from ill health, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1973, just as he was settling in to his renewed popularity. Today, audiences tend to be kinder and more understanding of Moreland, remembering him as a highly talented comic who, in the only way he knew, broke major barriers and opened the doors for others black actors to follow.

Mantan Moreland WIFE, FAMILY, KIDS

  • Hazel Henry (? - 28 September 1973) ( his death) ( 1 child)

Mantan Moreland Movies

  • Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) as Birmingham Brown
  • The Scarlet Clue (1945) as Birmingham Brown
  • Dark Alibi (1946) as Birmingham Brown
  • The Shanghai Cobra (1945) as Birmingham Brown

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