Ernest Trimmingham (1880–1942), surname often misspelled as Trimingham, was a playwright, journalist, and actor on stage and screen from the
British Overseas Territory
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternatively referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are the fourteen dependent territory, territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, ...
of Bermuda.
He was one of the first black actors in British cinema. Trimingham is a common surname in Bermuda connected with an affluent merchant family, 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.
He wrote the play ''Lily of Bermuda'' staged by Duse Mohamed Ali in Manchester in 1909.
Filmography
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The Adventures of Dick Turpin'' (1912), a British and Colonial Film Company release
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Jack, Sam and Pete'' (1919) as Pete
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See also
*Pete Hampton
Pete George Hampton (August 7, 1871 – March 16, 1916) was an American vocalist, harmonicist, banjo player, and vaudevillian from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was part of various Vaudeville groups of which the most important was his own Dar ...
References
1880 births
Bermudian male actors
Black British male actors
British male film actors
British male stage actors
1942 deaths
20th-century British male actors
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