Blue Washington was born on February 12, 1898 in Los Angeles, California, as Edgar Hughes Washington. He was an actor, known for There It Is (1928), Beggars of Life (1928) and Haunted Gold (1932). He was married to Marion Lenán. He died on September 15, 1970, at Mira Loma Hospital in Lancaster, California. He was laid to rest at Evergreen Memorial Park in Los Angeles. His son, Kenny Washington, was buried beside him in 1971. Edgar 'Blue' Washington was also a ballplayer in the Negro League for the Los Angeles White Sox and (briefly) the Kansas City Monarchs. He was a childhood friend of Frank Capra and appeared as John Wayne’s sidekick in Haunted Gold (1932), but it wasn’t always clear he was headed for Hollywood. He played professional baseball in the 1910s and 1920s for two of the most glamorous African American teams in existence, and for a time it must have seemed obvious that this was his vocation. In the end he chose a different path. It certainly wasn’t easi...
Lucky Larkin
1930
Gone with the Wind
1939
Do Your Duty
1928
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
1950
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
Pinky
1949
The Hustler
1961
Road to Morocco
1942
The Long Voyage Home
1940
Roman Scandals
1933
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
Kentucky
1938
Sundown
1941
Too Hot to Handle
1938
Over the Wall
1938
Welcome Danger
1929
Tales of Manhattan
1942
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
Rose of Washington Square
1939
Souls at Sea
1937
Rowdy Ann
1919
Weary River
1929
Guilty Hands
1931
A Virginia Courtship
1921
Cleopatra
1934
Haunted Gold
1932
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
1949
Lady for a Night
1942
King of the Arena
1933
Wells Fargo
1937
Haunted Spooks
1920
Beggars of Life
1928
Rio Rita
1929
The Light That Failed
1939
Way Down South
1939