resting_place death_date death_place years_active birth_place children name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
calvary cemetery , east los angeles 19 november 1985 woodland hills , los angeles , california , u.s. 1925 -- 1976 key west , florida , u.s. jemajo 1938 -- 1969 -rrb- perry -lrb- 1930 -- -rrb- donald lambright -lrb- stepin fetchit 30 may 1902 dorothy bernice sims -lrb- ? -- 1984 -rrb- -lrb- her death stevenson -rrb- -lrb- 1929 -- ? -rrb- winifred johnson stepin_fetchit1 . jpg stepin fetchit
 lincoln theodore monroe andrew perry actor pneumonia and heart failure
stepin fetchit

lincoln theodore monroe andrew perry -lrb- may 30 , 1902 -- november 19 , 1985 -rrb- , better known by the stage name stepin fetchit , was an american comedian and film actor .
perry parlayed the fetchit persona into a successful film career , eventually becoming a millionaire , the first black actor in history to do so .
he was the first black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film .
perry 's typical film persona and stage name have long been controversial , and seen as illustrative of negative stereotypes of african-americans .
seen through a modern lens , perry 's `` laziest man in the world '' character has been described as `` painfully racist '' but also `` subversive '' .
