Godfrey Cambridge Signed Photograph.

CAMBRIDGE, Godfrey.

$125.00

Item Number: 132940

Black and white photograph of pioneering African-American comic and actor Godfrey Cambridge, signed by him, “Bless ya Godfrey Cambridge.” In very good condition. The photograph measures 7 inches by 5 inches.

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge was an American stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time in 1965 as "one of the country's foremost celebrated Negro comedians." Godfrey's memorable film roles include The Last Angry Man (1959), in which he played a character called "Nobody Home", The President's Analyst (1967), where he plays a depressed government agent, and Watermelon Man (1970), in which he played the lead character, a white bigot who one day wakes up and discovers his skin color has turned black. He also had a starring role in the 1970 Ossie Davis adaptation of the Chester Himes novel Cotton Comes to Harlem, as well as its 1972 sequel, Come Back, Charleston Blue.