Film Career
His next major film role following his work in Pool of London was in the 1955 film Simba. This was a drama about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in which Earl Cameron played the role of Peter Karanja, a doctor trying to reconcile his admiration for Western civilisation with his Kikuyu heritage. He played the Mau Mau general Jeroge in Safari in the same year.
From the 1950s to the present day Cameron has had major parts in many films, including: The Heart Within (1957) in which he played a character Victor Conway in a crime movie yet again set in the London docklands; and Sapphire (1959) in which played Dr Robbins, the brother of a murdered girl; and The Message (1976) – the story of the Prophet Muhammad.
Other film appearances have included: Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), in which he played Tate; No Kidding (1960); Flame in the Streets (1961), in which he played Gabriel Gomez; Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963), in which he played Mang; Guns at Batasi (1964), in which he played Captain Abraham; Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), in which he played Sergeant Seth Hawkins; The Sandwich Man (1966), in which he played a bus conductor; and the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965), in which he played Bond's Caribbean assistant Pinder Romania. Cameron also acted alongside Thunderball lead Sean Connery in Cuba, in which he played Colonel Levya.
His most recent film appearances include a major role in The Interpreter (2005), playing the fictitious dictator Edmond Zuwanie. Cameron's performance was universally praised. The Baltimore Sun wrote: "Earl Cameron is magnificent as the slimy old fraud of a dictator..." Rolling Stone described Mr. Cameron's appearance as "subtle and menacing". Philip French in The Observer referred to "that fine Caribbean actor Earl Cameron". In 2006 he appeared in a cameo as a painter in the film The Queen, alongside Helen Mirren. In 2010 he appeared as "Elderly Bald Man" in the film Inception.
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