Blue Washington
Edgar Hughes "Blue" Washington (12 February 1898 – 15 September 1970) was an American actor and baseball player who played in the Negro leagues for a few years as a pitcher for the Chicago American Giants and the Los Angeles White Sox, and played first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs. He appeared in 74 films between 1919 and 1957, mostly playing small, uncredited roles as a porter, a bartender, an African native (as in "King Kong" (1933) and "Tarzan's Magic Fountain" (1949), a cook, a chauffeur, a ship's crew member, a Nubian slave, and a doorman . Some of his characters had names such as "Ulambo", "Sambo" (sambo) and "Hambone". In the 1933 film "Haunted Gold", he portrayed Clarence, John Wayne's comic sidekick. He had uncredited appearances in "Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Gone with the Wind" (1939). He was given the nickname "Blue" by film director Frank Capra when both were kids. Washington's son, Kenny Washington, a standout athlete at UCLA where he was a teammate of Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier in the National Football League in 1946. Personal. Washington was the son of Susie Washington and had three siblings. He  became a boxer at age 14 with the stage name of "Kid Blue." His separated from his partner Marian Lenàn when their son Kenny was two years old.