Jester Hairston

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, MUSIC_DEPARTMENT

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Composer, songwriter, conductor, singer and actor, educated at Tufts University, Juilliard, and the University of the Pacific (hon. Mus. D.). He acted on radio and television besides on film, and played Leroy on the "Amos 'n Andy" radio series for fifteen years. He directed the Federal Theatre Project, and was assistant conductor of the 'Hall Johnson Choir' in New York for fifteen years and trained choirs for radio and Broadway musicals. Coming to Hollywood in 1936, he sang and appeared with the Hall Johnson Choir in the film The Green Pastures (1936). Organizing his own choir in 1943, he arranged and conducted film background music and conducted choral groups in colleges and high schools, touring Europe for the State Department in 1961. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his popular-song compositions include "Mary's Boy Child," "Poor Man Lazarus," and many Gospel songs including "In Dat Great Gittin' Up Mornin'," "Amen," and "Gossip, Gossip." - IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!

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Releases by Year

Jester Hairston on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1974 to 1986. See the full graphs of the number of Jester Hairston movies released per year from 1974 till 1986.

Top Genres

Jester Hairston works mostly in Comedy Genre flixes. 100% of Jester Hairston movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jester Hairston worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jester Hairston has worked on is 6.8.

6.8 / 10

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Comedy
That's My Mama (1974)

Clifton likes being a barber in Washington, D.C., where he works in the business started by his father. He also enjoys being single, but his widowed mama Eloise has other ideas, and wants ...

6.9/1030 min

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