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Earl Cameron, now at the age of 87, can be seen in the critically acclaimed movie directed by Sydney Pollack, "The Interpreter" that also stars, Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman. In the movie, Earl Cameron stars as an unsavory President Edmund Zuwanie, president of the fictional African country of Matobo. The movie is about a United Nations interpreter who overhears a plot to assassinate Mr. Zuwanie as he addresses the UN General Assembly. Mr Earl Cameron is largely retired from the movie business but when he got the call from his agent that director Sydney Pollack wanted him to star in a political thriller, he was very willing to be aa part of the movie. Mr. Earl Cameron moved from Bermuda to England during the World War II and he became a pioneering black British actor. He rose to considerable fame in the UK as one of the first black actors to break the "color bar" winning critical acclaim for early roles about race relations in England. It was very usual for black actors to get roles where they played crude people but for Mr. Cameron, he got lucky to play sympathetic character roles. He got his breakthrough role in the movie, "The Pool of London" a 1951 film set in postwar London involving racial prejudice, romance and a diamond robbery that won critical acclaim. In London, in 1963, he became a Bahà'í. After being Bahà'í, he continued with his career coupling it with service to humanity at large. He had a 15year career break in the 1980s when he went to the Solomon Islands with his family to assist the Bahà'í community there. He sought to teach the principles of human oneness In 1994, Mr. Cameron left the Solomons just before his first wife Audrey passed away from breast cancer. They met in 1950 where both of them were working in the theater in Halifax, Yorkshire Uk. The married in 1954. This was unusual as she was both white and Jewish. In UK, there was not alot of judgement against bi-racial marriages but it was very hard for a black man to get a good and decent job. So he made due with what he could get. In the 1950s to the 1970s, his many film roles include; "Sapphire", "The Message"-the story of the Prophet Muhammad and the James Bond movie, "Thunderball". On tv his face was familiar on shows such as, "Danger Man", "Doctor Who" and "The Prisoner". |