James Edwards

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Acting

James Johnson Edwards (March 6, 1918 – January 4, 1970) was an American actor in films and television. His most famous role was as Private Peter Moss in the 1949 film Home of the Brave, in which he portrayed an African American soldier experiencing racial prejudice while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.

Filmography

• Legend of the Northwest (1978)
• Doomsday Voyage (1972)
• Patton (1970)
• Anatomy of a Crime (1969)
• Coogan's Bluff (1968)
• The Young Runaways (1968)
• The Sandpiper (1965)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge (1960)
• Blood and Steel (1959)
• Pork Chop Hill (1959)
• Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)
• Anna Lucasta (1958)
• Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
• Fraulein (1958)
• A Sound of Different Drummers (1957)
• Men in War (1957)
• Battle Hymn (1957)
• The Killing (1956)
• The Phenix City Story (1955)
• Seven Angry Men (1955)
• African Manhunt (1955)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• The Joe Louis Story (1953)
• The Member of the Wedding (1952)
• Bright Victory (1951)
• The Steel Helmet (1951)
• Home of the Brave (1949)
• The Set-Up (1949)