Herb Jeffries

Herb Jeffries was born on Sep 24, 1913 in USA. Herb Jeffries's big-screen debut came with Harlem on the Prairie directed by Sam Newfield in 1937, strarring Jeff Kincaid (as Herbert Jeffries).

This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films. Today he is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial doors in Hollywood and ultimately displayed a positive image as a black actor on celluloid.