Carlton Moss

Carlton Moss (February 14, 1909 – August 10, 1997) was an African-American screenwriter, actor and film director.

He attended Morgan State University, where he formed an acting troupe called "Toward a Black Theater".

Houseman recommended Moss for the position, later describing him as "skillful, progressive, educated and sensitive to every changing breeze of Harlem opinion."

[3] In 1944 Moss went to Europe and made the film Teamwork, a documentary about the work of an African-American quartermaster unit known as "The Redball Express".

[4] He had the chance to work with Elia Kazan on Pinky but left the project, as he felt it demeaning to blacks.

Moss directed the Federal Theatre Project revival of The Show-Off (1937), starring Dooley Wilson .