Acting credits
68
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 67Series: 1
TMDB ID: 120210
IMDb ID: nm0607138
Known for: Acting
Born: December 20, 1912
Died: July 24, 1989
Age: 76
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1917 - 1994
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.17
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
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
The Our Gang Story
as Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)
1994 Movie
10.0
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Scruno (archive footage)
1991 Movie
Classic Comedy Teams
as Our Gang and The East Side Kids (segment "Sunshine Sammy") (archive footage)
1986 Movie
4.2
Ghosts on the Loose
as Scruno
1943 Movie
5.8
Clancy Street Boys
as Scruno
1943 Movie
6.3
Kid Dynamite
as Scruno Jackson
1943 Movie
6.1
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as Scruno
1942 Movie
4.8
Let's Get Tough
as Scruno
1942 Movie
6.8
In This Our Life
as Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
1942 Movie
4.9
Spooks Run Wild
as Scruno
1941 Movie
5.8
Bowery Blitzkrieg
as Scruno
1941 Movie
5.8
Flying Wild
as Scruno
1941 Movie
6.0
Pride of the Bowery
as Scruno
1940 Movie
Fugitive from a Prison Camp
as Chuckles
1940 Movie
5.5
That Gang of Mine
as Scruno
1940 Movie
5.0
Boys of the City
as Scruno
1940 Movie
6.0
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as Joe
1940 Movie
5.8
Gang War
as Gang Member (uncredited)
1940 Movie
Soft Pedal
as Wary
1926 Movie
5.8
Fast Company
as Ernie
1924 Movie
6.1
It's a Bear
as Ernie
1924 Movie
5.8
Cradle Robbers
as Ernie
1924 Movie
5.8
Commencement Day
as Ernie
1924 Movie
5.8
Seein' Things
as Ernie
1924 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
