Harrison, Richard Berry
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Harrison, Richard Berry (1864–1935), American Negro actor, the son of slaves who escaped to Canada. He returned as an adult to Detroit, was befriended by L. E. Behymer, and after some training in elocution toured the Behymer and Chautauqua circuits with a repertory of Shakespearian and other recitations. He was working as a teacher of drama and elocution when he was persuaded to play ‘De Lawd’ in Marc
Connelly's The Green Pastures (1930), in which he made an immediate success, appearing in the part nearly 2,000 times. Of medium build, with a soft but resonant voice, he was for the greater part of his life a lecturer, teacher, and arranger of festivals for Negro schools and churches. A modest man, he was surprised by his success as ‘De Lawd’; but he enjoyed his contact with the professional theatre, his one great regret being that he never appeared in Shakespeare, whose works he knew so well.
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