Nick Stewart
Nick Stewart
Though moral dilemma initially left actor Nick Stewart slightly uncomfortable about his decision to portray Lightnin' on the Amos and Andy show, the role shot the actor to superstardom, providing him with ample funding to found his labor of love, the Los Angeles Ebony Showcase Theater, a theater which shattered stereotypes by providing black artists a medium to create meaningful, serious-minded drama. A native of Harlem, NY, Stewart initiated his show-business career as a multi-talented entertainer in such legendary institutions as the Hoofer's Club and the Cotton Club. Stewarts' film career was given a thankful boost when Mae West cast him in the role of Nicodemus in the classic Go West, Young Man (1936). A noted radio performer throughout the 1940s, Stewart would go on to find fame in such popular films as She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) and Carmen Jones (1954), though it was Disney's infamous take on the tales of Joel Chandler Harris, Song of the South (1946) (in the voice-role of Br'er Bear), that left an audible impression on many audiences of the era. Though Stewart appeared regularly in film throughout the 1940s and '50s, his roles would decline in consistency through the '70s and '80s, taking minor roles in such films as Silver Streak and Hollywood Shuffle. Nick Stewart died at his son's Los Angeles home at the age of 90. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Nick Stewart:
- Dakota with John Wayne , Vera Ralston , Walter Brennan , Ward Bond , Mike Mazurki , Ona Munson , Olive Blakeney , Hugo Haas , Paul Fix , Grant Withers , Robert Livingston , Olin Howland , Pierre Watkin , Robert H. Barrat , Jonathan Hale , Paul C. Hurst , Eddy C. Waller , Sarah Padden , Jack LaRue , George Cleveland , Selmer Jackson , Claire DuBrey , Roy Barcroft , Eugene Borden , Paul E. Burns , Dorothy Christy , Peter Cusanelli , Kenne Duncan , Frances Gladwin , Fred Graham , Lorna Gray , William Haade , Rex Lease , Cliff Lyons , LeRoy Mason , Al Murphy , Jack Roper , Hector V. Sarno , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Linda Stirling , Victor Varconi , Michael Visaroff , Virginia Wave , Dick Wessel , Robert Blake , Yakima Canutt , Harriette Haddon , Russ Kaplan , Arthur Miles , Betty Shaw , Cay Forrester , Larry Thompson
- Colonel Effingham's Raid with Joan Bennett , William Eythe , Allyn Joslyn , Elizabeth Patterson , Donald Meek , Frank Craven , Thurston Hall , Cora Witherspoon , Emory Parnell , Henry Armetta , Roy Roberts , Boyd Davis , Charles Trowbridge , Frank Orth , Robert Dudley , Ferris Taylor , Grant Mitchell , Carol Andrews , George H. Melford , Harry Hayden , Charles Wagenheim , Olin Howland , Walter S. Baldwin , Oliver Blake , Paul E. Burns , George Chandler , Ken Christy , Charles Coburn , Abe Dinovitch , Ralph Dunn , Stephen Dunne , Edward Fielding , Clyde Fillmore , Gus Glassmire , Mildred Gover , Henry Hastings , Herbert Heywood , Hallene Hill , Edward Keane , Alma Kruger , Paul Kruger , Sam McDaniel , Charles Moore , George O'Hara , George H. Reed , Clinton Rosemond , Marshall Ruth , Phil Tead , Jim Toney , Minerva Urecal , Cecil Weston , Elizabeth Williams , James Adamson , Guy Beach , Harry Humphrey , Ed Allen
- Stormy Weather with Lena Horne , Bill "Bojangles" Robinson , Fats Waller , Dooley Wilson , Cab Calloway , Nicholas Brothers , Katherine Dunham , Ada Brown , Tramp Band , Babe Wallace , Ernest Whitman , Zuttie Singleton , Mae E. Johnson , Johnny Lee , Robert Felder , Eddie "Rochester" Anderson , Coleman Hawkins , F.E. Miller
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Spencer Tracy , Milton Berle , Sid Caesar , Buddy Hackett , Mickey Rooney , Ethel Merman , Phil Silvers , Dick Shawn , Jimmy Durante , Buster Keaton , Jonathan Winters , Edie Adams , Dorothy Provine , Eddie "Rochester" Anderson , Ben Blue , Alan Carney , Barrie Chase , William Demarest , Peter Falk , Paul Ford , Leo Gorcey , Edward Everett Horton , Don Knotts , Carl Reiner , Andy Devine , Sterling Holloway , Marvin Kaplan , Charles Lane , Charles McGraw , ZaSu Pitts , Madlyn Rhue , Arnold Stang , Jesse White , Lloyd Corrigan , Selma Diamond , Stan Freberg , Louise Glenn , Ben Lessy , Bobo Lewis , Sammee Tong , Norman Fell , Nicholas Georgiade , Jim Backus , Paul Birch , Joe E. Brown , Chick Chandler , Stanley Clements , Howard DaSilva , Joe DeRita , Minta Durfee , Roy Engel , Larry Fine , Don Harvey , Moe Howard , Allen Jenkins , Harry Lauter , Mike Mazurki , Cliff Norton , Barbara Pepper , Roy Roberts , Eddie Ryder , Terry-Thomas , Doodles Weaver , Jerry Lewis , Tom Kennedy , John Zaccaro
- Silver Streak with Gene Wilder , Jill Clayburgh , Richard Pryor , Patrick McGoohan , Ned Beatty , Clifton James , Ray Walston , Len Birman , Valerie Curtin , Lucille Benson , Scatman Crothers , Fred Willard , Delos V. Smith , Harvey Atkin , Henry Beckman , John Day , Stefan Gierasch , Raymond Guth , Bill Henderson , Gordon Hurst , Richard Kiel , Lee McLaughlin , Jack O'Leary , Ed McNamara , Lloyd White , Matilda Calnan , Thomas Erhart , Jack Mather
- Night and Day with John Alvin , Cary Grant , Eve Arden , Alexis Smith , Herman Bing , Monty Woolley , Paul Cavanagh , Jane Wyman , Tom D'Andrea , Dorothy Malone , Mary Martin , Victor Francen , Howard Freeman , Alan Sr. Hale , Milada Mladova , Clarence Muse , Carlos Ramirez , George Riley , Selena Royle , Sig Rumann , Ginny Simms , Henry Stephenson , Bobby Watson , Donald Woods , George Zoritch , Lynne Baggett , Edward Biby , George Boyce , Harlan Briggs , Peter Camlin , Hobart Cavanaugh , Chester Clute , John Compton , Joyce Compton , Harry Crocker , Frank Dae , Boyd Davis , Fern Emmett , Herbert Evans , Frank Ferguson , Sam Flint , Gene Garrick , Lisa Golm , Buddy Gorman , Creighton Hale , Edna Mae Harris , Hans Herbert , Rune Hultman , Boyd Irwin , Gladden James , Eddie Kane , Colin Kenny , George Kirby , Joe Jr. Kirkwood , Ellen Lowe , Frank Marlowe , Jo Ann Marlowe , Tom McGuire , Robert McKenzie , Claire Meade , George Meader , Bert Moorhouse , Jack Mower , Gregory Muradian , George Nokes , Vivien Oakland , Garry Owen , Albert Petit , Gordon Richards , Jack Richardson , Cyril Ring , Marshall Ruth , Virginia Sale , Fred Santley , Wallace Scott , Almira Sessions , Harry Seymour , Laura Treadwell , Elizabeth Valentine , Philip vanZandt , John Vosper , Regina Wallace , Crane Whitley , Eric Wilton , Joan Winfield , Richard Erdman , Edward Kelly , John Miles , Charles Williams , Rebel Randall , John W. Goldsworthy , Richard Bartell , Maurice Brierre , Henri DeSoto , Rudy Friml , Michael Lally , Mayo Newhall , Harold deBecker , Robert Arthur , Edgar Caldwell , Bernard DeRoux , Dick Earle , Ernest Golm , Paul Gustine , Jack W. Johnston , Marie Melesch , Helen O'Hara , Helen Pender , Dorothy Reisner , Susanne Rosser , George Suzanne , George Volk , Pat Gleason , Charles Miller
- Hollywood Shuffle with Robert Townsend , Robert Townsend , Robert Townsend , Robert Townsend , Anne-Marie Johnson , Starletta DuPois , Helen Martin , Craigus R. Johnson , Dom Jack Irrera , Paul Mooney , Lisa Mende , Robert R. Shafer , John Witherspoon , Ludie C. Washington , Keenen Ivory Wayans , Franklyn Ajaye , Jesse Aragon , Jim Beaver , Conni Marie Brazelton , Verda Bridges , Wren T. Brown , Grand L. Bush , Michael Colyar , Sarah Katie Coughlin , Richard Jr. Cummings , Tony Edwards , Roy Fegan , Roy Fegan , Roy Fegan , Marc Figueroa , Marc Figueroa , Eugene Robert Glazer , Myra J. , Lorrie Marlow , Bobby McGee , David McKnight , Lydia Nicole , Brad Sanders , Le Tari , Damon Wayans , Kim Wayans , Jimmy Woodard , Gregory "Popeye" Alexander , Carl Craig , Rusty Cundieff , Donald Douglass , Sena Ayn Black , Michael Conn , Christopher Jackson , E.J. Murray , Don Reed , Nancy Scher , Steven Fertig , Howard Allen , Beverly Brown , Nancy Cheryl Davis , Nancy Cheryl Davis , Steve W. James , Tommy Jr. Morgan , Michael Smith
- Down to Earth with James Burke , Rita Hayworth , Larry Parks , Roland Culver , Jean Donahue , William Frawley , James Gleason , Edward Everett Horton , William Haade , Marc Platt , Adele Jergens , George MacReady , Kathleen O'Malley , Fred F. Sears , Eddie Acuff , Dusty Anderson , Arthur Blake , Billy Bletcher , Al Bridge , Rudolph Cameron , Frank Darien , Jean DelVal , Matty Fain , Mary Forbes , Grayce Hampton , Tom Hanlon , Winifred Harris , Dorothy Hart , Myron Healey , Ernest Hilliard , Frederic Howard , Virginia Hunter , Boyd Irwin , Lucien Littlefield , Wilbur Mack , Peggy Maley , Lynn Merrick , Forbes Murray , Ottola Nesmith , Mary Newton , Jack Norton , Cecil Weston , Jean Willes , Cora Witherspoon , Doris Houck , Lucille Casey , Raoul Freeman , Edward Harvey , Francine Kennedy , Bob Ryan , Count Stefanelli , Tom Daly
Nick Stewart Trivia
Who did Nick Stewart portray in Carmen Jones?
Nick Stewart was Dink Franks in Carmen Jones
Who did Nick Stewart portray in Dakota?
Nick Stewart was Nicodemus in Dakota
What role did Nick Stewart play in My Son, the Hero?
Nick Stewart played Nicodemus in My Son, the Hero
What role did Nick Stewart play in Colonel Effingham's Raid?
Nick Stewart played Ninety-Eight in Colonel Effingham's Raid
What role did Nick Stewart play in Stormy Weather?
Nick Stewart played Chauffeur in Stormy Weather
Who did Nick Stewart portray in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World?
Nick Stewart was Truck Driver in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
What role did Nick Stewart portray in Silver Streak?
Nick Stewart played Shoe Shiner in Silver Streak
Who did Nick Stewart portray in Night and Day?
Nick Stewart was Waiter in Night and Day
What role did Nick Stewart portray in Hollywood Shuffle?
Nick Stewart played Cookie's Father in Hollywood Shuffle
Who did Nick Stewart play in Down to Earth?
Nick Stewart was Porter in Down to Earth
