Juano Hernández

Juano Hernández

Born: July 19, 1896
Died: July 17, 1970
in San Juan, Puerto Rico
An Afro-Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry.

Movies for Juano Hernández...

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Title: They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Character: Mealie Williamson
Released: July 10, 1970
Type: Movie
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
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The Reivers
Title: The Reivers
Character: Uncle Possum
Released: December 25, 1969
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Title: The Extraordinary Seaman
Character: Ali Shar
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain.
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The Pawnbroker
Title: The Pawnbroker
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Title: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Character: Bugs
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Title: Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Character: Chief Standing Bear
Released: October 23, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.
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Two Loves
Title: Two Loves
Character: Chief Rauhuia
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
Title: The Sins of Rachel Cade
Character: Kalanumu
Released: April 2, 1961
Type: Movie
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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Sergeant Rutledge
Title: Sergeant Rutledge
Character: Sgt. Matthew Luke Skidmore
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
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Machete
Title: Machete
Character: Bernardo
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis, for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos. Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel, poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
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St. Louis Blues
Title: St. Louis Blues
Character: Rev. Charles Handy
Released: April 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
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The Mark of the Hawk
Title: The Mark of the Hawk
Character: Amugu
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno
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Something of Value
Title: Something of Value
Character: Njogu - Oath Giver
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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Ransom!
Title: Ransom!
Character: Jesse Chapman aka Uncle Jesse
Released: January 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich man stuns his wife and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.
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Trial
Title: Trial
Character: Judge Theodore Motley
Released: October 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Josh
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Kiss Me Deadly
Title: Kiss Me Deadly
Character: Eddie Yeager
Released: April 28, 1955
Type: Movie
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
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The Breaking Point
Title: The Breaking Point
Character: Wesley Park
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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Stars in My Crown
Title: Stars in My Crown
Character: Uncle Famous Prill
Released: May 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
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Young Man with a Horn
Title: Young Man with a Horn
Character: Art Hazzard
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard teaches young Rick Martin everything he knows about playing, so Rick becomes a star musician, but a troubled marriage and the desire to play pure jazz instead of commercial swing songs cause him problems.
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Intruder in the Dust
Title: Intruder in the Dust
Character: Lucas Beauchamp
Released: November 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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The Notorious Elinor Lee
Title: The Notorious Elinor Lee
Character: John Arthur
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
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Lying Lips
Title: Lying Lips
Character: Rev. Bryson
Released: January 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.
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Harlem Is Heaven
Title: Harlem Is Heaven
Character: Cop
Released: May 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson made his movie acting debut in this 1932 film, featuring Putney Dandridge, James Baskett (Oscar winner for "Song of the South"), Cotton Club dancer Anita Boyer, Henri Wassell, Alma Smith, Bob Sawyer, and composer/bandleader Eubie Blake and his orchestra.
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The Girl from Chicago
Title: The Girl from Chicago
Character: Gomez
Released: March 14, 1932
Type: Movie
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.
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The Life of General Villa
Title: The Life of General Villa
Character: Revolutionary Soldier (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution.