...in addition to his brilliant stage and theatrical film work (he played Clay in Dutchman both on the Off-Broadway stage and in the theatrical feature film, and portrayed Elijah Muhammad in Malcolm X), he won an Emmy for his role of Capt. Ed Hall on One Life to Live, becoming the first African-American to win a lead acting Daytime Emmy in 1979...
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