Delroy Lindo

He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). Menjou has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6822 Hollywood Blvd. Among the films he has starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White (1996). He ended his career with such roles as a French officer during World War I in 1957's Paths of Glory, and as the town curmudgeon in Pollyanna in 1960. It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi movie Salute of the Jugger (1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the comedy Crooklyn (1994). He published his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors in that year. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in its hunt for Communists in Hollywood.

His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady (1976) followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His career stalled with the coming of talkies, but in 1930 he starred in Morocco. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. When he starred in 1923's A Woman of Paris, he solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor. Returning from the war, he became a star in such films as The Sheik and The Three Musketeers.

Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. During World War I, he served as a captain in the ambulance service. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). Attracted to the vaudeville stage, he made his movie debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mystery. The Core (2003). Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. Cider House Rules (1999). Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 - October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

A Life Less Ordinary (1997). Black and White (1996). Get Shorty (1996). Malcolm X (1992).

Salute of the Jugger (1990). More American Graffitti (1979). Find the Lady (1976).