Movies with Mantan Moreland are always fun to watch. Here’s a few. So, pop some Popcorn and Enjoy!

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Who was this man? Here’s a Great Read…we must not forget our past and Mandan Moreland is a real part of our past.

A Great Comedian!

At the age of fourteen, he successfully ran away and joined a circus, and performed in the “Chitlin’ circuit,” of black vaudeville shows. Moreland was first hired as a comedian in 1927, appearing at Connie’s Inn, a Harlem, New York nightclub. He then worked in the Broadway musical Blackbirds of 1928, which ran for five hundred and eighteen performances. He spent a few years performing in other Broadway shows and touring in Europe before getting his big break in movies in the 1933 film That’s the Spirit.

Mantan Moreland (1902-1973)

Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.^[1] He starred in numerous films. His daughter Marcella Moreland appeared as a child actress in several films.

Mantan Moreland

• That’s the Spirit (1933) as Night Watchman
• The Green Pastures (1936) as Angel Removing Hat (uncredited)
• Harlem on the Prairie (1937) as Mistletoe
• Spirit of Youth (1938) as Creighton ‘Crickie’ Fitzgibbons
• Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938) as Bill Blake
• Frontier Scout (1938) as Norris Family Butler
• Next Time I Marry (1938) as Tilby
• Gang Smashers (1938) as Gloomy
• There’s Always a Woman (1939) as Porter (uncredited)
• Tell No Tales (1939) as Sport Black at the Wake (uncredited)
• Riders of the Frontier (1939) as Chappie (Cookie in credits)
• Irish Luck (1939) as Jefferson
• One Dark Night (1939) as Samson Brown
• The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1940) as Robbins (uncredited)
• City of Chance (1940) as Anxious Man (uncredited)
• Chasing Trouble (1940) as Thomas H. Jefferson
• Millionaire Playboy (1940) as Bellhop
• Viva Cisco Kid (1940) as Memphis – The Cook (uncredited)
• Star Dust (1940) as George, Dining Car Steward (uncredited)
• Girl in 313 (1940) as Porter
• On the Spot (1940) as Jefferson White
• Maryland (1940) (uncredited)
• Pier 13 (1940) as Sam – Elevator Operator (uncredited)
• Laughing at Danger (1940) as Jefferson
• Up in the Air (1940) as Jeff
• While Thousands Cheer (1940) as Nash
• Drums of the Desert (1940) as Sergeant ‘Blue’ Williams
• Four Shall Die (1940) as Beefus – Touissant’s Chauffeur
• Lady from Louisiana (1941) as Servant (uncredited)
• You’re Out of Luck (1941) as Jeff Jefferson
• Sleepers West (1941) as Porter (uncredited)
• Footlight Fever (1941) as Willie Hamsure – Elevator Operator (uncredited)
• Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery (1941) as Roy
• Sign of the Wolf (1941) as Ben
• Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941) as Schenectady Jones
• King of the Zombies (1941) as Jeff
• Hello, Sucker (1941) as Elevator Boy
• Bachelor Daddy (1941) as Club Janitor (uncredited)
• The Gang’s All Here (1941) as Jefferson ‘Jeff’ Smith
• Cracked Nuts (1941) as Burgess
• Accent on Love (1941) as Prisoner in Courtroom (uncredited)
• Dressed to Kill (1941) as Rusty
• World Premiere (1941) as Train Porter (uncredited)
• Let’s Go Collegiate (1941) as Jeff
• It Started with Eve (1941) as Railway Porter (uncredited)
• Birth of the Blues (1941) as Black Trumpet Player (uncredited)
• Marry the Boss’s Daughter (1941) as Cook (uncredited)
• Up Jumped the Devil (1941) as Washington
• Freckles Comes Home (1942) as Jeff – the Hotel Porter
• Treat ‘Em Rough (1942) as ‘Snake-Eyes’
• Four Jacks and a Jill (1942) as Cicero – Wash Room Attendant (uncredited)
• Law of the Jungle (1942) as Jefferson ‘Jeff’ Jones
• Lucky Ghost (1942) as Washington
• Professor Creeps (1942) as Washington
• The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942) as Horatio B.Fitz Washington
• Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942) as Sam, the Nightclub Janitor (uncredited)
• Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942) as Lightnin’
• Footlight Serenade (1942) as Amos. Tommy’s Dresser
• A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) as Porter (uncredited)
• Phantom Killer (1942) as Nicodemus
• Girl Trouble (1942) as Edward
• Eyes in the Night (1942) as Alistair
• The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Diner Waiter (uncredited)
• Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942) as Prentiss the Benedict Butler (uncredited)
• It Comes Up Love (1943) as Janitor (uncredited)
• Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943) as Eustace Smith
• Cabin in the Sky (1943) as First Idea Man
• Slightly Dangerous (1943) as Waiter at Swade’s (uncredited)
• He Hired the Boss (1943) as Shoeshine Man (uncredited)
• Sarong Girl (1943) as Maxwell
• Hit the Ice (1943) as Porter with Snowshoes (uncredited)
• We’ve Never Been Licked (1943) as Willie
• Melody Parade (1943) as Skidmore
• Revenge of the Zombies (1943) as Jeff
• Hi’ya, Sailor (1943) as Sam
• You’re a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943) as Porter
• My Kingdom for a Cook (1943) as Train Porter (uncredited)
• Swing Fever (1943) as Woody, Nick’s Valet (uncredited)
• She’s for Me (1943) as Sam
• Chip Off the Old Block (1944) as Porter
• Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) as Birmingham Brown
• See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) as Porter on Train (uncredited)
• Moon Over Las Vegas (1944) as Porter
• Pin-Up Girl (1944) as Red Cap #2 (uncredited)
• This Is the Life (1944) as Porter (uncredited)
• The Chinese Cat (1944) as Birmingham Brown
• South of Dixie (1944) as The Porter
• Black Magic (1944) as Birmingham Brown
• Mystery of the River Boat (1944, serial) as Napoleon the ship steerer
• Bowery to Broadway (1944) as Alabam
• The Jade Mask (1945) as Birmingham Brown
• The Scarlet Clue (1945) as Birmingham Brown
• The Shanghai Cobra (1945) as Birmingham Brown
• Captain Tugboat Annie (1945) as Pinto
• She Wouldn’t Say Yes (1945) as porter (uncredited)
• The Spider (1945) as Henry
• Mantan Messes Up (1946) as Mantan
• Riverboat Rhythm (1946) as Mantan
• Dark Alibi (1946) as Birmingham Brown
• Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) as Birmingham Brown
• The Trap (1946) as Birmingham Brown
• Tall, Tan, and Terrific (1946) as Mantan Moreland
• Mantan Runs for Mayor (1946)
• The Chinese Ring (1947) as Birmingham Brown
• Ebony Parade (1947) as Mantan
• What a Guy (1948)
• Docks of New Orleans (1948) as Birmingham Brown
• Best Man Wins (1948) as Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
• Shanghai Chest (1948) as Birmingham Brown
• The Golden Eye (1948) as Birmingham Brown
• The Feathered Serpent (1948) as Birmingham Brown
• The Return of Mandy’s Husband (1948)
• She’s Too Mean for Me (1948)
• Come On, Cowboy! (1948)
• Sky Dragon (1949) as Birmingham Brown
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue (1955) as Himself
• Basin Street Revue (1956) as Himself
• The Patsy (1964) as Barbershop Porter (uncredited)
• Alvarez Kelly (1966) as Bartender (uncredited)
• Enter Laughing (1967) as Subway Rider
• Spider Baby (1968) as Messenger
• The Comic (1969) as Passerby at Billy’s Funeral (uncredited)
• Watermelon Man (1970) as counterman
• The Biscuit Eater (1972) as Waiter
• The Young Nurses (1973) as Old man (final film role)

Television

• 1957 Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 episode)
• 1969 Julia (1 episode)
• 1969 Love, American Style (1 episode)
• 1970 The Bill Cosby Show (1 episode)
• 1970 Adam-12 (1 episode)