Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (died 1985)

Stepin Fetchit

American character actor (1902–85)

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, better known by his 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. His highest profile was during…