Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-12-20 (77 years old)
Deathday
1989-07-24
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Also known As
Sammy Morrison
Little Sambo
Smiling Sambo
Sambo
Sunshine Sammy
Ernest Fredric Morrison
Ernest 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison
Hal Roach's Rascals
Ernie Morrison
Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Biography
Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.
Acting
1940
as Chuckles
1941
as Scruno
1941
as Scruno
1994
as Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)
1922
as Booker T.
1923
as Booker T.
1922
as Sorghum
1920
1926
as In Need
1943
as Scruno
1919
as George Washington Joffre Foch Pershing Johnson
1919
as Sambo
1991
as Scruno (archive footage)
1943
as Scruno
1917
1920
as Small Boy (uncredited)
1922
1918
as Sambo
1919
as Little Henry Hercules
1920
as George Washington Tarfoot Lee
1922
1920
1922
as Prince’s aid
1926
as Wary
1920
1920
1921
as Assistant
1940
1923
as Sammy Johnson
1921
as Narcissus
1923
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1921
as Goofy
1922
as Booker T.
1940
as Scruno
1942
as Scruno
1921
as Sammy
1921
as Little Casino
1940
as Scruno
1940
as Gang Member (uncredited)
1941
as Scruno
1920
as Messenger Boy
1922
as Booker T. Bacon
1940
as Scruno
1923
as Ernie
1924
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1924
as Ernie
1924
as Sunshine Sammy
1923
as Ernie 'Sammy'
1924
as Ernie
1924
as Member of the Gang (uncredited)
1924
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1943
as Scruno Jackson
1924
as Ernie
1924
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1922
as Sunshine Sammy
1922
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1923
as Ernie
1924
as Ernie
1942
as Scruno
1920
as The Kid
1920
1920
1920
as Servant's Child
1920
1921
1926
1920
as Little Boy (uncredited)
1922
as Herman
1942
as Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
1920
as Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)
1919
1919
1920
1920
1919
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