Lucretia Harris

{{short description|American actress}}

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Lucretia Harris, also known as Lucretia Williams and Lucretia B. H. Rogers, (1873 or 1874 - July 27, 1923) was an actress in the United States. An African American, she had supporting roles during the silent film era. She featured in The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy series of comedy shorts from 1920 until 1921.

Her roles included portraying a mammy in multiple films,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoQaAQAAIAAJ&q=lucretia+harris+actress|title=The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History|first1=Allan|last1=Lazar|first2=Dan|last2=Karlan|first3=Jeremy|last3=Salter|date=October 17, 2006|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=9780061132216|via=Google Books}} a cook,{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1k2AQAAMAAJ&q=lucretia+harris+actress|title=Photoplay|date=June 22, 1920|publisher=Macfadden Publications|via=Google Books}} and a maid in the Edgar series.

She was from Alabama.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=lucretia+harris+actress&pg=PA318|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|first=Scott|last=Wilson|date=August 19, 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|via=Google Books}} She is buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

  • A Kentucky Cinderella (1917) as Aunt Chlorindy
  • The Captain of His Soul (1918){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9e1DAQAAMAAJ&q=lucretia+harris+actress&pg=RA5-PA19|title=Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage|date=June 22, 1918|publisher=Dramatic Mirror Company|via=Google Books}}
  • The Last Rebel (1918 film)
  • Creaking Stairs (1919)
  • The Feud (1919 film) as Nancy
  • The Intrusion of Isabel (1919) as Mammy Johnson
  • Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920)*short
  • Edgar's Hamlet (1920)*short
  • Edgar's Jonah Day (1920)*short
  • Edgar Takes the Cake (1920)*short
  • Edgar's Sunday Courtship (1920)*short
  • Edgar Camps Out (1920)*short
  • Edgar's Little Saw (1920)*short
  • Edgar, the Explorer (1920)*short
  • Edgar's Country Cousin (1921)*short
  • Edgar's Feast Day (1921)*short
  • Desperate Youth (1921)
  • Edgar, the Detective (1921) *short
  • Nobody's Fool (1921 film) as Melinda
  • The Forgotten Law (1922) as Mammy Cely
  • Human Hearts (1922) as Carolina

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