Mantan Moreland
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-09-03 (71 years old)
Deathday
1973-09-28
Place of Birth
Monroe, Louisiana, USA
Also known As
Man Tan Moreland
Manton Moreland
Manten Moreland
Carter & Moreland
Moreland
Mantan Moreland
Biography
Although his brand of humor has been reviled for decades, Negro character actor Mantan Moreland parlayed his cocky but jittery character into a recognizable presence in the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in a long string of comedy thrillers . . . and was considered quite funny at the time! Born just after the turn of the century in Louisiana, Mantan began running away from home at age 12 to join circuses and medicine shows, only to be brought back time and again. During these times he sharpened his comic skills and developed routines and acts that eventually became popular on the vaudeville stage, or what was then called the "chitlin'...
Acting
1941
as Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson
1941
as Railway Porter (uncredited)
1967
as Messenger
1970
as Joe the Counterman
1942
as Amos
1945
as Harry
1944
as Birmingham Brown
1944
as Birmingham Brown
1945
as Birmingham Brown
1944
as Birmingham Brown, Taxi Driver
1945
as Birmingham Brown
1945
as Birmingham Brown, Chauffeur
1946
as Birmingham Brown
1946
as Birmingham Brown
1946
as Birmingham Brown
1941
as Porter (uncredited)
1948
as Birmingham Brown
1947
as Birmingham Brown
1948
as Birmingham Brown
1948
as Birmingham Brown
1942
as Alistair
1948
as Birmingham Brown
1942
as Horatio B.Fitz Washington
1942
as Washington
1942
as Sam, the Nightclub Janitor (uncredited)
1940
as Jeff Jefferson
1943
as First Idea Man
1941
as Black Trumpet Player (uncredited)
1945
as Porter (uncredited)
1940
as Jefferson White
1938
as Norris Family Butler
1942
as Nicodemus
1941
as Ben
1943
as Eustace Smith
1943
as Skidmore
1943
as Woody
1942
as Jeff the porter
1941
as Jefferson 'Jeff' Smith
1943
as Jefferson 'Jeff' Johnson
1946
1941
as Jeff Jefferson
1942
as Cicero - Wash Room Attendant (uncredited)
1938
as Tilby
1938
as Creighton 'Crickie' Fitzgibbons
1938
as Bill Blake
1942
as Schenectady Washington
1939
as Jefferson
1944
as Train Station Porter (uncredited)
1943
as Maxwell
1941
as Jeff
1946
as Mantan
1942
as Prentiss - The Benedict Butler (uncredited)
1941
as Rusty
1941
1945
as Pinto
1956
as Self
1967
as Subway Rider
1944
as Porter
1937
as Mistletoe
1947
as Mantan
1942
as Washington
1941
as Washington
1942
as Flint's Chauffeur
1939
as Sport Black at the Wake (uncredited)
1942
as Jefferson "Jeff" Jones
1939
as Chappie, the Cook
1944
as Porter
1940
as Thomas H. Jefferson
1949
as Mantan
1940
as Bellhop
1940
as Memphis - The Cook
1940
as Robbins
1942
as 'Snake-Eyes'
1940
as Waiter on Train
1936
as Angel Removing Hat (uncredited)
1940
as Jefferson
1940
as Sergeant 'Blue' Williams
1940
as Beefus - Touissant's Chauffeur
1943
as Bootblack
1942
as Porter (uncredited)
1948
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as Mantan
1948
1940
as Porter
1940
1940
as Anxious Man
1949
as Birmingham Brown
1938
as Gloomy
1941
as Burgess
1942
as Lightnin'
1943
as Waiter at Swade's (uncredited)
1944
as Alabam
1943
as Porter
1944
as The Porter
1943
as Willie
1943
as Porter with Snowshoes (uncredited)
1933
as Night Watchman
1946
as Mantan Moreland
1944
as Train Porter (uncredited)
1943
as Woody, Nick's Valet (uncredited)
1964
as Barber Shop Porter
1973
as Old Man
1941
as Diner Cook
1940
as Nash
1939
as Samson Brown
1969
as Passerby at Billy's Funeral (unbilled)
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