Early Years
Cambridge was born on February 26, 1933 in New York City, to Sarah and Alexander Cambridge, who were immigrants from British Guiana. His parents, dissatisfied by the New York Public School System, sent him to live with his grandparents in Sydney, Nova Scotia during his primary school years. When he was 13, he moved back to New York and attended Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens.
In 1949 he received a four-year scholarship to study medicine at Hofstra College, which he attended for three years before dropping out to pursue a career in acting.
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