Pioneering Doctor Who and Thunderball star Earl Cameron dies aged 102
metro.co.ukDoctor Who star was confirmed to have died by Bermudian newspaper The Royal Gazette.Cameron was one of the first ever black actors to star in a British film, and is credited with breaking the ‘colour bar’ in the United Kingdom.In 1951, he took a leading role in the noir crime film Pool of London, breaking major boundaries in an industry that had only cast a handful of black actors in prominent roles prior to that point.In 2017, Cameron told The Guardian: ‘I never saw myself as a pioneer.
It was only later, looking back, that it occurred to me that I was.’Pool of London was the first British film to show a mixed race relationship, with Cameron’s character Johnny romancing a white woman.The actor arrived in the UK from Bermuda in 1939, and it.
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