Tributes have been paid to screen “pioneer” Earl Cameron, one of the first black actors to make it in British cinema. Bermudian newspaper The Royal Gazette reported that the screen star died aged 102.
Cameron’s career began in 1951 with Pool Of London, credited as being the first British film to feature an interracial relationship.
His later credits included playing Pinder in Bond movie Thunderball, Inception, and Sidney Poitier’s 1973 movie A Warm December.
Actor Paterson Joseph wrote on Twitter: “Giant Man. His generation’s pioneering shoulders are what my generation of actors stand on. “No shoulders were broader than this gentleman with the voice of God and the heart of a kindly prince.
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