Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor.
A member of the all-black cast of the Voodoo Macbeth production directed by Orson Welles in 1936,[1][2] Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in Souls of Sin, a 1949 feature directed by Powell Lindsay and produced by William D. Alexander that has been described as the last race film from a black producer.
[3] In 1980, credited as "Jim Wright," he played Father Brown in Personal Problems, a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed, but died between production of the first and second episodes.
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