Birthday

1912-12-20

Died

1989-07-24

Birthplace

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Gender

Male

Known For

Acting

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.

Acting Credits

Fugitive from a Prison Camp

Chuckles

Spooks Run Wild

Scruno

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Scruno

The Our Gang Story

Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)

Saturday Morning

Sorghum

A Quiet Street

Booker T.

The Big Show

Booker T.

Live and Learn

Don't Rock the Boat

Between Meals

In Need

Ghosts on the Loose

Scruno

The Old Maid's Baby

George Washington Joffre Foch Pershing Johnson

The Sawdust Doll

Sambo

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Scruno (archive footage)

Clancy Street Boys

Scruno

Captain Kiddo

Get Out and Get Under

Small Boy (uncredited)

The Non-Skid Kid

Dolly Does Her Bit

Sambo

Call for Mr. Caveman

Little Henry Hercules

Drink Hearty

George Washington Tarfoot Lee

Full o' Pep

Waltz Me Around

Sunny

The Sleuth

Prince’s aid

Soft Pedal

Wary

Run 'Em Ragged

Park Your Car

Big Game

Assistant

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Joe

A Pleasant Journey

Ernie

The Cobbler

Ernie

The Champeen

Sammy Johnson

Whirl o' the West

Sammy

The Pickaninny

Little Casino

Gang War

Gang Member (uncredited)

Tire Trouble

Ernie

Name the Day

Goofy

Back Stage

Ernie

Kid Dynamite

Scruno Jackson

Seein' Things

Ernie

Our Gang

Sunshine Sammy

Young Sherlocks

Ernie

Boys to Board

Ernie

Sunday Calm

Ernie

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

Scruno

It's a Bear

Ernie

Boys of the City

Scruno

Giants vs. Yanks

Ernie

Dogs of War!

Ernie

Fire Fighters

Booker T. Bacon

Pride of the Bowery

Scruno

The Buccaneers

Ernie

Cradle Robbers

Ernie

Rush Orders

Narcissus

One Terrible Day

Booker T.

Stage Fright

Ernie

Fast Company

Ernie

Big Business

Sunshine Sammy

Derby Day

Ernie 'Sammy'

The 'Fraidy Cat

Member of the Gang (uncredited)

That Gang of Mine

Scruno

Commencement Day

Ernie

The Dippy Dentist

Messenger Boy

Lodge Night

Ernie

Flying Wild

Scruno

July Days

Ernie

Let's Get Tough

Scruno

All Lit Up

The Kid

Any Old Port

Call a Taxi

Cracked Wedding Bells

Cash Customers

Grab the Ghost

Servant's Child

High Rollers

Don't Butt In

Haunted Spooks

Little Boy (uncredited)

Penrod

Herman

In This Our Life

Black Man in Jail (uncredited)

Number, Please?

Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)

Start Something

Giving the Bride Away

Tough Luck

Red Hot Hottentotts

Getting His Goat

Why Go Home?

Daddy Number Two

Classic Comedy Teams

Our Gang and The East Side Kids (segment "Sunshine Sammy") (archive footage)

Good Times