Paul Robeson Net Worth is
$1.4 Million

Mini Biography

This handsome, eloquent and highly charismatic actor became among the foremost interpreters of Eugene O’Neill’s plays and perhaps one of the most treasured names in song through the first half from the twentieth century. He also courted disdain and open public controversy for some of his profession being a staunch Frosty War-era advocate for individual rights. As the backlash of his civil privileges actions and left-wing ideology still left him embittered and virtually ruined his profession, he continues to be today a long lasting image of racial satisfaction and consciousness. Blessed in Princeton, NJ, on Apr 9, 1898, Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson and his four siblings (William, Benjamin, Reeve, Marian) dropped their mom, a schoolteacher, inside a open fire while quite adolescent (Paul was only six). Paul’s dad, a humble Presbyterian minister and previous slave, elevated the family members singlehandedly as well as the youthful, impressionable boy was raised performing spirituals in his father’s cathedral. Paul was an all natural athlete as well as the high (6’3″), strapping senior high school fullback acquired no trouble gaining a scholarship or grant to esteemed Rutgers School in 1915 at age group 17 — getting only the 3rd person in his race to become admitted at that time. He excelled in soccer, baseball, golf ball, and monitor and field, graduating being a four-letter guy. He was also the holder of the Phi Beta Kappa type in his junior calendar year and was a chosen person in their honorary culture, Cover and Skull. Furthermore, he was the course valedictorian and in his talk had been preaching idealism. Paul subsequently played professional soccer to make money even though going to Columbia University’s rules school, and in addition took component in beginner dramatics. During this time period he fulfilled and wedded Eslanda Cardozo Goode in 1921. She ultimately became his personal associate. Even though he was accepted to the brand new York club, Paul’s potential as an professional was destined and he under no circumstances did practice rules. His wife persuaded him to are likely involved in “Simon the Cyrenian” on the Harlem YMCA in 1921. This is accompanied by his Broadway debut the next season in the short-lived play “Taboo”, a crisis occur Africa, which also visited London. Because of this, he was asked to become listed on the Provincetown Players, a Greenwich Community movie theater group that contained in its regular membership playwright Eugene O’Neill. O’Neill individually asked Paul to celebrity in his takes on “All God’s Chillun Got Wings” and “The Emperor Jones” in 1924. The response from both critics and viewers as well was electrifying…an actor was created. In 1925 Paul delivered his 1st singing recital and in addition produced his film debut starring in Body and Soul (1925), a fairly murky melodrama that however was before its amount of time in its depictions of dark character types. Although Robeson performed a scurrilous, corrupt clergyman who requires benefit of his personal people, his powerful personality were able to sparkle through. Radio and recordings helped pass on his name across international waters. His resonant bass was a significant high light in the London creation of “Display Boat” particularly along with his effective rendition of “Ol’ Guy River.” He continued to be in London to try out the function of Shakespeare’s “Othello” in 1930 (at that time no U.S. business would hire him), and was once again significant in an extremely controversial creation. Paul caused hook mix by co-starring opposing a white celebrity, Peggy Ashcroft, who performed Desdemona. For this period Paul starred in the landmark English film Borderline (1930), a silent film that dealt highly with racial styles, and then came back to the level in the O’Neill play “The Hairy Ape” in 1931. The next year he made an appearance inside a Broadway revival of “Display Boat” once again as Joe. In the same creation, the mentioned chanteuse Helen Morgan repeated her initial 1927 overall performance as the half-caste part of Julie, however the white celebrity Tess Gardella performed the part of Queenie in her customary blackface reverse Robeson. Robeson spent the majority of his period singing and executing in England through the entire 1930s. He also was presented with the opportunity to capture two of his biggest stage successes on film: The Emperor Jones (1933) and Present Fishing boat (1936). In Britain he continuing to film sporadically with Sanders from the River (1935), Tune of Independence (1936), Ruler Solomon’s Mines (1937), Dark Sands (1937) as well as the Proud Valley (1940) in essential jobs that resisted demeaning stereotypes. Through the 1930s he also gravitated strongly towards economics and politics having a burgeoning desire for social activism. In 1934 he produced the to begin several trips towards the Soviet Union and outwardly extolled the Russian life-style and their insufficient racial bias. He was a favorite body in Wales where he became individually involved with their civil privileges affairs, notably the Welsh miners. Creating a proclaimed leftist ideology, he continuing to criticize the blatant discrimination he discovered so prevalent in the us. The 1940s was an assortment of performance triumphs and poignant, political upheavals. While his name operate in the musical dilemma “John Henry” (1940), was short-lived, he gained wide-spread acclaim for his Broadway “Othello” in 1943 opposing José Ferrer as Iago and Uta Hagen as Desdemona. By this time around, however, Robeson had been reviled by a lot of white America for his outspoken civil privileges speeches against segregation and lynchings, especially in the South. A creator of the Intensifying Party, an unbiased politics party, his outdoor concerts occasionally ignited assault and he was right now a full-blown focus on for “Crimson Menace” agitators. In 1946 he refused under oath being truly a person in the Communist Party, but steadfastly refused to refute the accusations under following probes. Because of this, his passport was withdrawn and he became involved in legal fights for nearly ten years to be able to get it. Adding gasoline towards the fireplace was his just son’s (Paul Jr.) relationship to a white girl in 1949 and his getting honored the Stalin Tranquility Award in 1952 (he was struggling to receive it until 1958 when his passport was came back to him). Essentially blacklisted, tainted press statements continued to hound him. He started performing much less and less in the us. Despite his developing scorn towards America, he hardly ever quit his American citizenship however the anguish of everything led to several suicide attempts, anxious breakdowns and a dependency on medicines. European countries was a different tale. The people continuing to carry him in high respect as an designer/concertist above reproach. He previously a command around 20 dialects and finished up offering his last performing functionality in “Othello” on international shores — at Stratford-on-Avon in 1959. While still executing in the 1960s, his wellness instantly took a convert for the worse and he finally returned to america in 1963. His poet/wife Eslanda Robeson passed away of cancer 2 yrs later. Paul continued to be in illness for virtually the others of his lifestyle. His last years had been spent in Harlem in near-total isolation, denying all interviews and general public correspondence, although he was honored for speaking out against apartheid in South Africa in 1978. Paul died in age group 77 of problems from a heart stroke. Among his many honors: he was inducted in to the University Soccer Hall of Popularity in 1995; he received a Grammy Life time Accomplishment Award in 1998; was honored having a postage stamp through the “Dark History” series; and both a Cultural Middle at Penn Condition University and a higher college in Brooklyn keep his name. In 1995 his autobiography “Right here I Stand” was released in Britain in 1958; his kid, Paul Robeson Jr., also chronicled a reserve about his dad, “Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Trip” in 2001.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Robeson
Died	January 23, 1976, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Height	1.91 m
Weight	99 kg
Profession	Actor, Lawyer, Singer, Football player, Social activist, Ol' Man River, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Education	Columbia Law School, Rutgers University, Somerville High School, Columbia University, Ol' Man River, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Nationality	American
Spouse	Eslanda Goode Robeson
Children	Paul Robeson Jr.
Parents	William Drew Robeson I, Maria Louisa Bustill, Ol' Man River, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Siblings	Marian Robeson, Benjamin Robeson, Reeve Robeson, William Drew Robeson Jr., Ol' Man River, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Awards	Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award, Ol' Man River, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Movies	The Proud Valley, The Emperor Jones, Sanders of the River, Song of Freedom, Body and Soul, Tales of Manhattan, King Solomon's Mines, Big Fella, Show Boat, Native Land, Jericho, Borderline, Camille, The Song of the Rivers, My Song Goes Forth