Biography.guide
Home › People › Jimmy Wright
Portrait of Jimmy Wright

Jimmy Wright

American actor

Don't just read it — keep itBiographies to ownE-book · Audio · Video From $7 →

About Jimmy Wright

Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor. A member of the all-black cast of the Voodoo Macbeth production directed by Orson Welles in 1936, Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in Souls of Sin, a 1949 feature directed by Powell Lindsay and produced by William D. Alexander that has been described as the last race film from a black producer. In 1980, credited as "Jim Wright," he played Father Brown in Personal Problems, a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed, but died between production of the first and second episodes.

Biography shop

Don’t just read it —
keep it.

Full-length biographies made to live with: read them, listen on the way to work, watch them tonight.

  • E-book
  • Audio
  • Video
Browse the shop — from $7

Instant download · yours to keep · every purchase keeps this site free

Frequently asked questions

Who was Jimmy Wright?

American actor

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jimmy Wright

· Wikidata: Q104853852

· DBpedia: Jimmy Wright (actor)

Cite this page

APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Jimmy Wright. https://biography.guide/jimmy-wright/

MLA: "Jimmy Wright." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/jimmy-wright/.

Chicago: "Jimmy Wright." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/jimmy-wright/.

Data last updated: 2026-09-20 · Spot an error? Report a correction.

Page generated 2026-09-27 05:11 UTC