Cinema Museum’s Earl Cameron Tribute
London’s Cinema Museum will pay special tribute to Bermudian actor Earl Cameron when the “Thunderball” and “Inception” star appears there in April to discuss his barrier-breaking career.
Britain’s first prominent black film actor, Mr.Earl Cameron — who left Bermuda for the UK shortly before the outbreak of World War Two — will talk about his 60 years on screen, the pivotal role he played raising the “colour bar” for black performers in the British film industry and co-stars ranging from Sean Connery to Sidney Poitier to Dame Helen Mirren.
Mr. Cameron, 93, will be in conversation with Marcus Thompson, who is currently filming a feature-length drama documentary about his extraordinary life.
Mr. Cameron’s films include his star-making debut in the critically acclaimed 1951 heist caper “Pool of London”, “Simba” and “Sapphire”. His most recent film appearances include a major role alongside Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman in “The Interpreter” (2005). His performance as an African despot won universal critical kudos with “The Baltimore Sun” saying “Earl Cameron is magnificent as the slimy old fraud of a dictator…” and “Rolling Stone” magazine describing his appearance as “subtle and menacing.”
In 2006 he appeared alongside Dame Helen Mirren as a portrait painter in the “The Queen”. And last year he appeared with Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar-nominated science fiction thriller “Inception.”
He was honoured with a retrospective of his films and a lifetime achievement award by the Bermuda International Film Festival in 2007 and appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s 2008 New Year Honour List. Mr. Cameron was most recently on the island last year when he paid a courtesy call on Premier Paula Cox and visited students at his old West Pembroke school.
The London Cinema Museum event “Earl Cameron in Conversation with Marcus Thompson” is being held on Saturday, April 30 and gets underway at 7.30 pm.
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