Laurence Criner
Laurence Criner occasionally credited as Lawrence Criner, was an actor in the United States. An African-American, he had numerous film roles including as the male lead and star.
He was a member of the Lafayette Players and worked at Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida where he starred in two of their race films. He later worked at African American studio Million Dollar Productions
The Smithsonian Institution has a lobby card for The Flying Ace. The Library of Congress has a movie poster of Life Goes On that features an insetimage of Crier. The National Museum of African American History has a herald for Flying Ace''.Filmography
- The Flying Ace as Capt. Blly Stokes
- The Millionaire
- Black Gold
- Black Moon, as high priest Kala
- The Duke Is Tops as Doc Dorando
- Gang Smashers
- Life Goes On
- Midnight Shadow Prince Alihabad
- Four Shall Die as Roger Fielding
- Gang War
- The Gang's All Here as Ham Shanks
- Up Jumped the Devil as Sheriff
- King of the Zombies as Dr. Couillie
- Freckles Comes Home as Roxbury B. Brown, III
- Law of the Jungle as Chief Mojobo an Oxford graduate
- Miracle in Harlem, as Albert Marshall
- What a Guy
- The Jackie Robinson Story
