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Lionel John Monagas (June 26, 1889 – September 3, 1945) was an American actor originally from

Caracas, Venezuela Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

. A member of the original Lafayette Players company of Harlem, he appeared in theatrical and film productions.

Theatre credits

Monagas' stage credits are listed at the Internet Broadway Database. * ''Confidence'' (1920) * ''The Heartbreaker'' (1920) * ''An African Prince'' (1920) * '' Salome'' (1923) * ''

The Comedy of Errors ''The Comedy of Errors'' is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It ...

'' (1923) * ''Runnin' Wild'' (1924) * ''Appearances'' (1925) * ''My Magnolia'' (1926) * ''Miss Calico'' (1926) * ''Slim Slivers'' (1927) * ''Ol' Man Satan'' (1932) * ''Louisiana'' (1933) * ''Hummin' Sam'' (1933) * '' Blackbirds of 1933'' (1933) * ''Roll, Sweet Chariot'' (1934) * ''The Man from Baltimore'' (1920) * ''Walk Together Chillun'' (1936) * '' Conjur' Man Dies'' (1936) * ''

The Show-Off ''The Show-Off'' is a 1924 stage play by George Kelly about a working-class North Philadelphian family's reluctance to accept their daughter's suitor Aubrey Piper, an overly confident Socialist buffoon. The play has been revived five times on Bro ...

'' (1937) * ''One-Act Plays of the Sea'' (1937) * ''

Big White Fog ''Big White Fog'' is a play by American playwright Theodore Ward and his first major work. The play follows the fictional Mason family across three generations between 1922 and 1933. Half of the family supports a return to Africa and Garveyism, wh ...

'' (1940) * ''The Eternal Magdalene'' (1943) * ''Peepshow'' (1944) * '' Anna Lucasta'' (1944)

Filmography

* '' The Millionaire'' (1927) * '' Drums O' Voodoo'' (1934) as Ebenezer * '' Lem Hawkins' Confession'' (1935) * ''

Murder in Harlem ''Murder in Harlem'' (also released as ''Lem Hawkins Confession'' and ''Brand of Cain'') is a 1935 American race film written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, who also appears in the film. He remade his 1921 silent film '' The Gunsaulus ...

'' (1935) * '' Keep Punching'' (1939)

Personal life

Monagas served in the United States Army in World War I, in the 92nd Division. He was buried on September 6, 1945, at

Long Island National Cemetery Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. It is surrounded by a group of other separate cemeteries and memorial parks situated along Wellwood Avenue (County Road 3) – these include Pi ...

.Ancestry.com. U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 atabase on-line Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Monagas, Lionel American male stage actors 20th-century Venezuelan male actors 1889 births 1945 deaths Burials at Long Island National Cemetery Venezuelan emigrants to the United States 20th-century American male actors United States Army personnel of World War I Venezuelan male stage actors Male actors from Caracas Venezuelan male film actors American male film actors