Oscar Polk
Oscar Polk ( born December 25, 1899 in Marianna, Arkansas, † January 4, 1949 in New York City ) was an American film and theater actor.
Life and work
Although the African American Oscar Polk is known today primarily as a nervous house slave Pork in Gone with the Wind, he spent most of his career on Broadway, so he turned a total of only eleven films. On Broadway, Polk enjoyed success with songs like The Trial of Mary Dungan, Dark Eyes, You Can not take It with You and The Green Pastures. In the film version of the latter piece he played in 1936 also. The famous photographer Carl van Vechten made also with Polk least two photo series.
Ten days after his 49th birthday Polk was descended on January 4, 1949 during a fall from the curb in Times Square by a taxi and died. He was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery on the in Maspeth, Long Iceland. Oscar Polk was married until his death with Ivy Parsons and had with her at least one son, Oscar Polk Jr.