Credits include: Bad Day at Black Rock, Vanishing Point, White Christmas, Game of Death and Alligator

He was a highly successful black actor/director in the 1950s and 1960s who - because of his light-skinned appearance - transcended race and ethnicity in his performances. In motion pictures, Frank Silvera was cast as black, Latino, Polynesian and "white"/racially indeterminate (due to black + white film stock's lack of discernment when rendering light-skinned African-Americans).

Credits include: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Marooned, The Valley of Gwangi and The Last Shark

African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent seve

Credits include: Niagara, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Buddy Holly Story, Easy Money and The Cheyenne Social Club

Credits include: King of the Hill, Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed and Boy Under Glass

Credits include: Ruby Gentry, Anatomy of an Accident, Mr. Novak, Queen for a Day and Boy Under Glass

Credits include: Boy Under Glass and Hawk