Born July 25, 1942· Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
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Having arrived in Britain from Trinidad in the 1950s, Oscar James turned his early work as a taxi driver and gymnast toward a stage career, eventually joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as its fourth black member and becoming the first black actor to portray Macbeth. In 1972 he co-founded Temba, the pioneering black British theatre company that staged the UK debut of Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi…
