Edmund James Cambridge Jr. (September 18, 1920 – August 18, 2001) was an American actor and director who was a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and the Kilpatrick-Cambridge Theater Arts School.
[5] At age 15, Cambridge began his professional career at Swan's Paradise in Harlem as a chorus boy.
[1] Edmund was the President of the Original Cambridge Players, who took a Los Angeles premiere of The Amen Corner to Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in April 1965.
In 1968, Cambridge joined Robert Hooks, Douglas Turner Ward and several other actors to start the Negro Ensemble Company.
Other productions Cambridge directed at NEC include Steve Carter's critically acclaimed drama, Eden.