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Juano G. Hernández (July 19, 1896 [3] [4] – July 17, 1970) was a Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry. He made his silent picture debut in The Life of General Villa , and talking picture debut in an Oscar Micheaux film, The Girl from Chicago , which was directed at black audiences.
Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 American musical drama film starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. [2] [3] Directed by Michael Curtiz, it was based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker inspired by the life of jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke.
That Juano Hernandez is a fine actor—and man, too." [5] More than 50 years later, in 2001, film historian Donald Bogle wrote that Intruder in the Dust broke new ground in the cinematic portrayal of blacks, and Hernandez's "performance and extraordinary presence still rank above that of almost any other black actor to appear in an American movie."
Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, and Wesley Addy. It also features Maxine Cooper and Cloris Leachman appearing in their feature film debuts. The film follows a private investigator in Los Angeles who becomes embroiled in a ...
(Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) Later in the day, Quan was again joined by some of his fellow Goonies when Sean Astin, Cohen, Green and Feldman joined him at the premiere of his new film, "Love ...
Juano Hernandez as Judge Theodore "Ted" Motley; Robert Middleton as Sheriff A.A. "Fats" Sanders; John Hoyt as Ralph Castillo, "an aristocratic bigot" Paul Guilfoyle as Cap Grant, a white supremacist; Elisha Cook Jr. as Finn, a process server for the Battle Committee; Ann Lee as Gail Wiltse, Marie's mother; Whit Bissell as Sam Wiltse, Marie's father
Chilling video shows a wealthy California businesswoman being chased around her car and then gunned down in a parking lot — in what cops call a “murder-for-hire scheme” orchestrated by her ...
The True Story of How Aaron Hernandez Lost It All Boston Globe - Getty Images. By scoring a touchdown in 2012’s Super Bowl XLVI, ... Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell just five days later.