Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor. A member of the all-black cast of the Voodoo ''Macbeth'' production directed by

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in 1936, Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in '' Souls of Sin'', a 1949 feature directed by Powell Lindsay and produced by William D. Alexander that has been described as the last

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from a black producer. In 1980, credited as "Jim Wright," he played Father Brown in '' Personal Problems'', a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by

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, but died between production of the first and second episodes.

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* ''Listing for "Souls of Sin"'' * ''Listing for "Personal Problems"'' American male film actors American male stage actors Federal Theatre Project people {{US-theat-actor-stub