deaths
November 19, 1985
Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1902)
Stepin Fetchit
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 the 1930s in films and on stage, when his persona of Stepin Fetchit was billed as the "Laziest Man in the World".