Howard Kelly was a vaudeville and film actor in the United States. He was part of the Pekin Theatre’s stock company.[1] He started in some of William D. Foster’s Foster Photoplay Company films including The Railroad Porter and The Barber.[2][3]

He had a starring role in The Railroad Porter.[2] He also starred in The Barber with Anna Holt and Edgar Lillison.[4]

He starred with Bessie Brown in Billy King’s musical Now I’m a Mason at the Grand Theatre in Chicago in 1914. He also starred with Brown in King’s The Night Raid at the Grand Theatre in Chicago in 1918.[5]

Theater

  • In the Jungle (1915), a musical comedy by Billy King staged at the Grand Theatre
  • In Society (1915), a Billy King production at the Grand Theatre[6]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Boyd, Todd (October 30, 2008). African Americans and Popular Culture [3 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313064081 – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 "William Foster, A.K.A. "Juli Jones" (1884-1940)". www.normanstudios.org.
  3. ↑ Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s. Rutgers University Press. 4 March 2010. ISBN 9780813549293.
  4. ↑ Lupack, Barbara (May 26, 2016). Early Race Filmmaking in America. Routledge. ISBN 9781317434252 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Peterson, Bernard L. (1993). A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, About, or Involving African Americans. ISBN 9780313266577.
  6. ↑ Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-8108-8351-2.


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