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Cy Grant is a Actor Guyanien born on 8 november 1919 at Beterverwagting (Guyana)

Cy Grant

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Nationality Guyana
Birth 8 november 1919 at Beterverwagting (Guyana)
Death 13 february 2010 (at 90 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Cy Grant (8 November 1919 – 13 February 2010) was a Guyanese actor, musician, writer and poet. In the 1950s, he became the first black person to be featured regularly on television in the United Kingdom, mostly due to his appearances on the BBC current affairs show Tonight.

Following service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Grant worked as an actor and singer, before establishing the Drum Arts Centre in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he was appointed director of Concord Multicultural Festivals. A published poet and author of several books, including his 2007 memoir Blackness and the Dreaming Soul, Grant was made an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University in 1997, and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network in 2001. In 2008, he assisted in the founding of an online archive to trace and commemorate Caribbean airmen of the Second World War.

A father of four children, Grant lived with his wife, Dorith, in Highgate, London.

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Filmography of Cy Grant (4 films)

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At the Earth's Core, 1h29
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Keith Barron
Roles Ra
Rating50% 2.502732.502732.502732.502732.50273
Dr. Abner Perry, a British Victorian period scientist (Cushing), and his US financier David Innes (McClure) make a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles, the Mahars, and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen. They are captured by the Mahars, who keep primitive humans as their slaves through mind control. David falls for the beautiful slave girl Princess Dia (Munro) but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David and Perry must rally the surviving human slaves to rebel and not only save her but also win their freedom.
Shaft in Africa, 1h52
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Films about terrorism, La précarité
Actors Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Neda Arnerić, Vonetta McGee, Frank McRae, Spiros Focás
Rating59% 2.9519352.9519352.9519352.9519352.951935
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa (much of the movie was filmed in Ethiopia), assuming the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker. His job is to help break a criminal ring that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.
Sea Wife
Sea Wife (1957)
, 1h22
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Harold Goodwin
Roles Number Four
Rating57% 2.852762.852762.852762.852762.85276
Michael Cannon (Richard Burton) returns to London after the Second World War and places advertisements in the personal column of various newspapers (The Daily Telegraph distributed miniaturised copies of the newspaper showing the 'ad' at U.K. cinemas after each performance of the film), in which "Biscuit" tries to get in touch with "Sea Wife". Eventually Cannon, who is Biscuit, receives a letter summoning him to the Ely Retreat and Mental Home. There he meets an ill man nicknamed "Bulldog" (Basil Sydney). Bulldog tries to persuade Biscuit to give up the search. A flashback reveals the backstory.
Safari
Safari (1956)
, 1h30
Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Liam Redmond
Roles Chief Massai
Rating56% 2.8052352.8052352.8052352.8052352.805235
When American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau terrorists attack his farm; slaughtering the labourers and livestock. Duffield's son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a poor transliteration of Njoroge) (Earl Cameron) is actually a Mau Mau general. From inside the farmhouse, Jeroge murders Aunt May with a machete and Charlie by repeatedly firing May's rifle into the child.