Sunshine Sammy Morrison

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 87

Gender Male

Birthday December 20, 1912

Day of Death July 24, 1989 (76 years old)

Place of Birth New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Also Known As

Sammy Morrison
Little Sambo
Smiling Sambo
Sambo
Sunshine Sammy
Ernest Fredric Morrison
Ernest 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison
Hal Roach's Rascals
Ernie Morrison

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Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Biography

Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.

Known For

Acting

1994

as Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)

1991

as Scruno (archive footage)

1974

1 episode

1943		Ghosts on the Loose as Scruno
1943		Clancy Street Boys as Scruno
1943		Kid Dynamite as Scruno Jackson

1942		'Neath Brooklyn Bridge as Scruno
1942		Let's Get Tough as Scruno
1942		In This Our Life as Black Man in Jail (uncredited)

1941		Spooks Run Wild as Scruno
1941		Bowery Blitzkrieg as Scruno
1941		Flying Wild as Scruno

1940		Pride of the Bowery as Scruno
1940		Fugitive from a Prison Camp as Chuckles
1940		That Gang of Mine as Scruno
1940		Boys of the City as Scruno
1940		I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby as Joe
1940		Gang War as Gang Member (uncredited)

1926		Soft Pedal as Wary
1926		Don't Butt In
1926		Between Meals as In Need

1924		Fast Company as Ernie
1924		It's a Bear as Ernie
1924		Cradle Robbers as Ernie
1924		Commencement Day as Ernie
1924		Seein' Things as Ernie
1924		The 'Fraidy Cat as Member of the Gang (uncredited)
1924		The Buccaneers as Ernie
1924		Big Business as Sunshine Sammy
1924		Tire Trouble as Ernie

1923		Sunday Calm as Ernie
1923		Derby Day as Ernie 'Sammy'
1923		Stage Fright as Ernie
1923		July Days as Ernie
1923		Lodge Night as Ernie
1923		Dogs of War! as Ernie
1923		Back Stage as Ernie
1923		Giants vs. Yanks as Ernie
1923		Boys to Board as Ernie
1923		A Pleasant Journey as Ernie
1923		The Big Show as Booker T.
1923		The Cobbler as Ernie
1923		The Champeen as Sammy Johnson

1922		A Quiet Street as Booker T.
1922		Saturday Morning as Sorghum
1922		Young Sherlocks as Ernie
1922		Our Gang as Sunshine Sammy
1922		Fire Fighters as Booker T. Bacon
1922		One Terrible Day as Booker T.
1922		The Sleuth as Prince’s aid
1922		The Non-Skid Kid
1922		Full o' Pep
1922		Penrod as Herman

1921		The Pickaninny as Little Casino
1921		Name the Day as Goofy
1921		High Rollers
1921		Big Game as Assistant
1921		Rush Orders as Narcissus
1921		Whirl o' the West as Sammy

1920		Number, Please? as Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)
1920		Park Your Car
1920		Cash Customers
1920		Get Out and Get Under as Small Boy (uncredited)
1920		Run 'Em Ragged
1920		Live and Learn
1920		Call a Taxi
1920		Don't Rock the Boat
1920		Any Old Port
1920		Grab the Ghost as Servant's Child
1920		Drink Hearty as George Washington Tarfoot Lee
1920		Cracked Wedding Bells
1920		Haunted Spooks as Little Boy (uncredited)
1920		Waltz Me Around
1920		Getting His Goat
1920		All Lit Up as The Kid
1920		The Dippy Dentist as Messenger Boy
1920		Why Go Home?
1920		Red Hot Hottentotts

1919		Tough Luck
1919		Call for Mr. Caveman as Little Henry Hercules
1919		Giving the Bride Away
1919		Daddy Number Two
1919		Start Something
1919		The Sawdust Doll as Sambo
1919		The Old Maid's Baby as George Washington Joffre Foch Pershing Johnson

1918

as Sambo

1917

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