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The black British actor, Lucius Blake, only has two official credits to his name on the IMDB film database. An internet search brings up next to nothing about his life. But he actually appeared in at least thirty films from 1928 to 1952.

His life and works have been unearthed by a film researcher, Marc David Jacobs, who thinks Blake might be the most prolific black actor in early British cinema. "At first, I remember sending pictures of him in four films that I had found to my friends and saying 'have you seen this person in other films?' A year later and now I've uncovered him in over 30 films. He's had this 25 year career. He's this great survivor in the background of British cinema from the twenties until the fifties."

(Photo: Lucius Blake in King of the Damned (1935) Credit: BFI National Archive)