Ernest Trimingham

Ernest Trimmingham (1880–1942), surname often misspelled as Trimingham, was a playwright, journalist, and actor on stage and screen from the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.^[1] He was one of the first black actors in British cinema. Trimingham is a common surname in Bermuda connected with an affluent merchant family,^[2] and it is likely that Ernest adopted it when he became an actor. He was born in Bermuda in 1880, and died in England on 2 February 1942.^[3][4]

He wrote the play Lily of Bermuda staged by Duse Mohamed Ali in Manchester in 1909.^[5]

Filmography

• The Adventures of Dick Turpin (1912), a British and Colonial Film Company release
• Jack, Sam and Pete (1919) as Pete^[1]

See also

• Pete Hampton