Albert C. Johnston

Albert C. Johnston (August 17, 1900 – June 23, 1988) was an American doctor. Described as part-black and of multiracial parentage Except for supporting cast members, white actors were used for the film. Johnston had trouble finding work but was eventually secured employment as a doctor by passing as white. He was a country doctor and radiologist in New Hampshire. He entered the Navy as a commissioned officer but the offer was rescinded; he eventually learned that the decision was due to the discovery of his ethnic background.

A high school student wrote about Johnston and his home in 2001. In 2013, Stanford University professor Allyson Hobbs wrote about the Johnstons and their passing in her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing .