Avon Long

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Avon Long (June 18, 1910 – February 15, 1984) was an American Broadway actor and singer. Long was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

He performed in a number of Broadway shows, including Black Rhythm (1939), Porgy and Bess (as Sportin' Life in the 1942 revival), and Beggar's Holiday (1946). He received a Tony Award nomination in 1973 for the role of Dave in Don't Play Us Cheap.

He reprised his role of Sportin' Life in the 1951 3-LP Columbia Masterworks recording of Porgy and Bess, the most complete recording of the opera issued up to that time.

Long also appeared in a number of films and television shows. He played Chicken George Moore in Roots: The Next Generations miniseries, and had small roles in Trading Places - memorable as Ezra, the man to whom Don Ameche gives a miserably small Christmas bonus ("maybe I'll go to the movies - by myself") - and The Sting.

He died in 1984 in New York City.

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