Raymond St. Jacques
Raymond St. Jacques ( * March 1, 1930 in Hartford (Connecticut ); † August 27, 1990 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor.
Life and work
He began his career in the 1940s, including as assistant director, fencing instructor and cabaret performers at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford. With tour stage he began to travel and arrived in the early 1950s to New York.
Here the colored actor debuted off Broadway in December 1954 in High Name Today. In June 1959 he made his Broadway debut in Romeo and Juliet and trained alongside continued at the Actors Studio.
Since 1963 he was a film actor, first in supporting supporting roles. His most significant role this time was that of malignant Haitian intelligence chiefs in The Comedians.
In the late 1960s, early 1970s, took over St. Jacques regularly lead roles in aligned on a colored audience films. In crime fiction and film dramas, mostly played in big cities, he embodied always serious roles both villains and police officers and FBI agents. In 1977 he was in I am the boss to see civil rights as Martin Luther King.