The Jackie Robinson Story (16-May-1950)
Director: Alfred E. Green Writers: Lawrence Taylor; Arthur Mann Music Score: Herschel Burke Gilbert Producer: Mort Briskin Keywords: Sports Drama, Biography, Baseball Biopic of Jackie Robinson, overcoming prejudice to become the first black admitted to modern Major League Baseball. While undeniably one of the greatest baseball players of all time, acting is not among Robinson's strong suits; low budget production filmed while he was still an active player. Ruby Dee puts in a wonderful performance as his devoted wife; forty years later Dee would play his mother in The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990).
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Louise Beavers |
Actor |
8-Mar-1902 |
26-Oct-1962 |
She Done Him Wrong |
Ruby Dee |
Actor |
27-Oct-1924 |
12-Jun-2014 |
The Jackie Robinson Story |
Bernie Hamilton |
Actor |
12-Jun-1928 |
30-Dec-2008 |
Capt. Dobey on Starsky and Hutch |
Jackie Robinson |
Baseball |
31-Jan-1919 |
24-Oct-1972 |
First negro in the major leagues |
Minor Watson |
Actor |
22-Dec-1889 |
28-Jul-1965 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
CAST Starring | Jackie Robinson | ... Himself | | with | Ruby Dee | ... Rae Robinson | Minor Watson | ... Branch Rickey | Louise Beavers | ... Jackie's Mother | Richard Lane | ... Hopper | Harry Shannon | ... Charlie | Ben Lessy | ... Shorty | Bill Spaulding | ... Himself | Billy Wayne | ... Clyde Sukeforth | | Joel Fluellen | ... Mack Robinson | Bernie Hamilton | ... Ernie | Kenny Washington | ... Tigers Manager | Pat Flaherty | ... Karpen | Larry McGrath | ... Umpire | Emmett Smith | ... Catcher | Howard Louis MacNeely | ... Jackie, as a Boy | George Dockstader | ... Bill |
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