Cy Grant
Born in Guyana (British Guiana), Cy Grant served as a navigator in the
RAF during World War II. He was shot down over Germany and spent two years
as a prisoner-of-war. After the war, he qualified as a Barrister at Law
in London but found great success as an actor and singer in theater, radio,
television and film. In addition to singing folksongs and calypsos in
nightclubs, he appeared in A Man from the Sun (1956), a BBC television
drama about Caribbean life in London, and starred in Calypso (1958),
an Italian/French movie that was shot in the Caribbean and featured calypso
and Latin music. He also acted in the films Shaft in Africa, Sea
Wife and At the Earth's Core, and was the voice of Lieutenant
Green in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a popular animated
children's television show in Britain. His theatrical work ranged from
the role of Othello in a BBC television production to a one-man production
of Aime Cesaire's Return to My Native Land, which toured England.
