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Stepin Fetchit
American character actor (–85)
"Lincoln Perry" redirects here.
Mel watkins stepin fetchit biography
For the artist, see Lincoln Perry (artist).
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, – November 19, ), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.[3] His highest profile was during the s in films and on stage, when his persona of Stepin Fetchit was billed as the "Laziest Man in the World".
Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, becoming the first black actor to earn $1 million. He was also the first black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film.[4][5]
Perry's film career slowed after and nearly stopped altogether after Around that time, Black Americans began to see his Stepin Fetchit persona as an embarrassing and harmful anachronism, echoing negative stereotype