Rosalind Cash

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Rosalind Cash (born December 31, 1938 in Atlantic City , New Jersey , † October 31, 1995 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

The African-American actress grew up in Atlantic City and decided to start an acting career in New York. This project turned out to be difficult at first, so that Cash had to do various sideline jobs for a long time in addition to small stage roles at the Harlem YMCA (in Langston Hughes ' Soul Gone ) and at the New York City Center (in the musical Fiorello! About New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia ) , u. a. as a saleswoman, nurse, waitress and singer in a night club. She also took acting lessons from Edmund Cambridge and Vinette Carroll .

She only achieved her acting breakthrough in 1968, when she was almost thirty, when she joined the ensemble of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), which in this time of racial unrest and the increased demand for more rights for colored people staged pieces by blacks for blacks. Rosalind Cash played modern, emancipated black women like "Adele Eloise Parker" in Ceremonies in dark old men by Lonne Elder III. and became known nationwide. In 1969 she made a guest appearance in London during the Peter Daubeny- directed World Theater Season .

In 1971 she made her film debut with a small role in the thriller Klute . In the same year she played the female lead in the futuristic end-time drama The Omega Man , who saves the real hero of the film ( Charlton Heston ) from a group of mutants. The following year she played the title role in Melinda , a film of the blaxploitation genre, as a strong and dangerous female character. From then on she was a fixture in Hollywood, although her roles varied in quality. She played under Richard Fleischer in The New Centurions , under Sidney Poitier in Uptown Saturday Night , but also in cheaper productions such as the horror film Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde about a good-natured black doctor who turns into a brutal white man after taking a tincture.

Cash worked extensively on television in the 1970s and 1980s. She has guest roles in successful television series such as Cosby Show , Mission in Manhattan , Starsky & Hutch , "An Angel on Earth" and starred in television films such as A Killing Affair (as the unfortunate wife of OJ Simpson ). For some time she also played in the Soap Opera General Hospital as the family matriarch "Mary Mae Ward".

In 1992 Rosalind Cash was inducted into the Black Film-makers Hall of Fame for her artistic merits .

She died of cancer on October 31, 1995 at the age of 56.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1984: Buckaroo Banzai - The 8th Dimension ( The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension )
  • 1986: Knight Rider (TV series, episode "Voo Doo Knight", Mrs. Harana the Voodoo Princess)

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personal data
SURNAME Cash, Rosalind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlantic City , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1995
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States