Alec Lovejoy

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Alec Lovejoy
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Born1893
Died1946
OccupationActor

Alec Lovejoy, sometimes billed as Alex Lovejoy, (1893 - 1946) was an actor in the United States. He appeared on stage[1][2] and screen. He owned Lovejoys on Central Avenue in Los Angeles. He was photographed with Julia Richardson and promoter Earl Griffin in Los Angeles in the 1940s.[3]

He is on a lobbycard for the film Murder in Harlem.[4] He is noted on advertising for Murder on Lennox Avenue as part of the "All-Star Colored Cast" in support of Mamie Smith.

Theater

  • How Come? (1923)[5]
  • Change Your Luck (1930) as Big Bill
  • Sweet Chariot (1930) as King
  • Black Rhythm (1936) as Cornbread
  • How Come, Lawd? (1937) as Slacks
  • Sing for Your Supper (1939)

Filmography

  • St. Louis Blues (uncredited)
  • Black and Tan (1929), as piano mover[6]
  • Murder in Harlem (1935)[7][8] as Lem Hawkins
  • God's Step Children (1938) as Ontrue Cowper, a gambler
  • Swing (1938) as Lem Jackson
  • Birthright[9] (1939)
  • Paradise in Harlem (1939) as Misery
  • Moon Over Harlem (1939) as Fats[10]
  • Sunday Sinners (1940) as Eli
  • Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) as Flivver Johnson[2]

References

  1. "Alec Lovejoy – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Alec Lovejoy (Performer) | Playbill".
  3. "Alex Lovejoy, Julia Richardson and Earl Griffin, Los Angeles, 1940s - UCLA Library Digital Collections". digital.library.ucla.edu.
  4. "Murder In Harlem, lobbycard, , Alec Lovejoy, Dorothy Van Engle, 1935". Getty Images.
  5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/501105984/?clipping_id=123200739&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjUwMTEwNTk4NCwiaWF0IjoxNjg4OTk4OTc5LCJleHAiOjE2ODkwODUzNzl9.OI4a0Z4gfyPySBkyIBJnGT09TLl3RDmcjx8Yq746jug
  6. themoviedb
  7. "Alec LOVEJOY - Festival de Cannes 2023". www.festival-cannes.com.
  8. "Dark Manhattan with Murder in Harlem". Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - Timeline.
  9. "Birthright". The Criterion Channel.
  10. "Alec Lovejoy". BFI.

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