Englewood Makes History

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  • Robert Earl Jones (1910–2006) was a pioneering American stage and screen actor whose long career spanned early Black theater, classic Hollywood, and postwar Broadway. Born in Mississippi, Jones left school at a young age and worked with his family as a sharecropper before…
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  • Delroy George Lindo is an English and American actor. He lived with his parents who were Jamaican immigrants in London until the family moved to Toronto when he was sixteen. He graduated from the American Conservatory Theater in 1979. His career began in 1976 and Lindo mostly…
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  • John Allen Amos Jr. is an actor. Before his acting career, he did social work and played football. His first major work was on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970 to 1973. He is most well-known for his part in Good Times from 1974 to 1976. Amos served as artistic director of…
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  • Clarke Peters(born Peter Clarke, April 7, 1952) is an internationally acclaimed actor, writer, and director whose work in theater, film, and television is grounded in a lifelong commitment to culture, community, and place. Although he has spent much of his adult life in the…
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  • Robert L. Daniels was the manager of Music Manor, a downtown record store. He also was a theater critic and actor. He had three children Marc, Lisa Spaulding, and David. He lived in Little Falls and Oakland before moving to Chatham New Jersey for thirty years.
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  • John Aprea is an American actor. Aprea is a second-generation Italian immigrant. He is known for his role as Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather: Part II (1972). He also had roles in Falcon Crest, Full House, Matt Houston, and The Sopranos. He was born in Englewood and attended…
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  • John Travolta rose to international fame in the 1970s through his starring roles in Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy, and Blow Out. His career would later include an Academy Award-nominated performance in Pulp Fiction and a successful recording career, highlighted by…
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