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Lord Beaverbrook blocked all publicity for a film in which this actor plays David Goliath, a sailor turned coal miner in Wales. This actor claimed that he would join audiences who boycotted the movie that led him to quit film, Tales of Manhattan. Jomo Kenyatta worked as an extra on a film whose racist final cut so incensed this actor that he tried to destroy every print. This co-star of Sanders in the River was the longtime (*) chairman of the Council on African Affairs and founded the American Crusade Against Lynching. For a James Whale film, this actor removed (-5[1])stereotypical dialect from a Jerome Kern song about an entity (10[1])that “must know something / But he don’t say nothing.” For 10 points, name this actor and activist who sang “Ol’ Man River” in the film version of Show Boat. ■END■ (10[2])

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