Edgar Hughes "Blue" Washington (26 February 1898 – 15 September 1970) was an American actor and baseball player who played in the Negro leagues from 1915 to 1920 as a pitcher and first baseman.

[3] Washington started his baseball career as a pitcher with the Chicago American Giants in 1915.

He later played with the Kansas City Monarchs in 1920, appearing in 24 documented major league games.

[5] He appeared in 74 films between 1919 and 1957, mostly playing small, uncredited roles as a porter, a bartender, an African native (as in King Kong (1933) and Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), a cook, a chauffeur, a ship's crew member, a Nubian slave, and a doorman.

In the 1933 film Haunted Gold, he portrayed Clarence, John Wayne's comic sidekick.