Biography
Raymond St. Jacques, born James Arthur Johnson, was an American actor, director and producer. He was born on 1 March 1930 in Hartford, Connecticut, and died on 27 August 1990 in Los Angeles, California.
He trained at Yale University and began his career on stage, appearing in Broadway and off-Broadway productions including The Blacks and Shakespeare plays. St. Jacques became the first Black actor to hold a regular role in a Western series, playing Simon Blake in Rawhide (1965–1966). His film roles included Coffin Ed Johnson in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and its sequel Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972), the Street Preacher in They Live (1988), and Frederick Douglass in Glory (1989). He also directed, produced and starred in Book of Numbers (1973).
