Villain of the Month: Roy Glenn
African American character actor Roy Glenn, like most of his generation spent the earlypart of his career, playing supporting parts in jungle movies like Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1951), The Royal African Rifles (1952), The Bowery Boys’ Jungle Gents (1954) and Tarzan’s Fight for Life (1958).
His post jungle film highlights include appearances in Carmen Jones (1954), Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), Finnian’s Rainbow (1968) and The Great White Hope (1970).
But it should come as no surprise that his only serial would be Republic’s Jungle Drums of Africa (1953), playing a witch doctor who is in league with foreign agents after uranium due to fear and jealousy over missionary Phyllis Coates’ usurping his authority with her modern medical science.
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