T-Bone Wilson
T-Bone Wilson is a Guyanese-British actor, dramatist and poet. Life. Wilson came to England from Guyana in 1962 as an engineering student. Deciding to take up drama, he trained at the Mountview Theatre School. Wilson acted in Mustapha Matura's series of short plays, "Black Pieces", staged by Roland Rees at the ICA in 1970. Wilson was inspired to become a playwright himself, writing "Jumbie Street March", "Body and Soul" (1974) and "Come Jubilee" (1977). "Jumbie Street March" was produced by the Dark and Light Theatre Company. As a theatre actor, Wilson performed in the  National Theatre's 1981 production of "Measure for Measure", the first main-stage Shakespeare by a national theatre company to employ a majority of ethnic minority actors. He played Banquo in a 1984 production of "Macbeth" at the Young Vic Theatre. Wilson appeared in the 1979 TV drama "A Hole in Babylon", based on events leading up to the 1975 Spaghetti House siege. He also appeared in Franco Rosso's 1980 film "Babylon", which portrayed sound system culture and racism in Brixton.