Ernest Trimmingham (1880–1942), often misspelled as Trimingham, was an actor on stage and screen from the

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of Bermuda. He was one of the first black actors in British cinema. Trimingham is a common, but exclusively white, surname in Bermuda connected with an affluent merchant family, and it is likely that Ernest adopted it when he became an actor. He was born in Bermuda in 1880, and died in England on 2 February 1942.

Filmography

*'' The Adventures of Dick Turpin'' (1912), a British and Colonial Film Company release *'' Jack, Sam and Pete'' (1919) as Pete

References

1880 births Bermudian male actors Black British male actors British male film actors British male stage actors 1942 deaths 20th-century British male actors {{UK-actor-stub