| Walter Long | |
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| Born | 5 March 1879 Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Died | 4 July 1952 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1910 - 1950 |
Walter Long (5 March 1879 – 4 July 1952) was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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He appeared in many D.W. Griffith films, notably The Birth of a Nation (1915), where he appeared as Gus, a Negro, in blackface make-up, and Intolerance (1916).
In 1915 Long wrote a black-face minstrel play, "Dat Famous Chicken Debate," in which representatives of the "University of Africa" and "Bookertea College" carry on a mangled language debate over whether it should be considered a crime for a black person to steal a chicken. The debate, a thinly disguised parody of one going on between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, ends up with a warning that blacks who don't respect the white man's laws risk being lynched.
Long is now best remembered for his roles in several Laurel and Hardy films in the 1930s as a comic villain.
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