Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Acting
Born December 20, 1912, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
Filmography
- 1994The Our Gang Story — Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)
- 1991Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook — Scruno (archive footage)
- 1986Classic Comedy Teams — Our Gang and The East Side Kids (segment "Sunshine Sammy") (archive footage)
- Good Times
- 1943Clancy Street Boys — Scruno
- 1943Ghosts on the Loose — Scruno
- 1943Kid Dynamite — Scruno Jackson
- 1942'Neath Brooklyn Bridge — Scruno
- 1942In This Our Life — Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
- 1942Let's Get Tough — Scruno
- 1941Bowery Blitzkrieg — Scruno
- 1941Flying Wild — Scruno
- 1941Spooks Run Wild — Scruno
- 1940Boys of the City — Scruno
- 1940Fugitive from a Prison Camp — Chuckles
- 1940Gang War — Gang Member (uncredited)
- 1940I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby — Joe
- 1940Pride of the Bowery — Scruno
- 1940That Gang of Mine — Scruno
- 1926Between Meals — In Need
- 1926Don't Butt In
- 1926Soft Pedal — Wary
- 1924Big Business — Sunshine Sammy
- 1924Commencement Day — Ernie
- 1924Cradle Robbers — Ernie
- 1924Fast Company — Ernie
- 1924It's a Bear — Ernie
- 1924Seein' Things — Ernie
- 1924The 'Fraidy Cat — Member of the Gang (uncredited)
- 1924The Buccaneers — Ernie
- 1924Tire Trouble — Ernie
- 1923A Pleasant Journey — Ernie
- 1923Back Stage — Ernie
- 1923Boys to Board — Ernie
- 1923Derby Day — Ernie 'Sammy'
- 1923Dogs of War! — Ernie
- 1923Giants vs. Yanks — Ernie
- 1923July Days — Ernie
- 1923Lodge Night — Ernie
- 1923Stage Fright — Ernie
- 1923Sunday Calm — Ernie
- 1923The Big Show — Booker T.
- 1923The Champeen — Sammy Johnson
- 1923The Cobbler — Ernie
- 1922A Quiet Street — Booker T.
- 1922Fire Fighters — Booker T. Bacon
- 1922Full o' Pep
- 1922One Terrible Day — Booker T.
- 1922Our Gang — Sunshine Sammy
- 1922Penrod — Herman
- 1922Saturday Morning — Sorghum
- 1922The Non-Skid Kid
- 1922The Sleuth — Prince’s aid
- 1922Young Sherlocks — Ernie
- 1921Big Game — Assistant
- 1921High Rollers
- 1921Name the Day — Goofy
- 1921Rush Orders — Narcissus
- 1921The Pickaninny — Little Casino
- 1921Whirl o' the West — Sammy
- 1920All Lit Up — The Kid
- 1920Any Old Port
- 1920Call a Taxi!
- 1920Cash Customers
- 1920Cracked Wedding Bells
- 1920Don't Rock the Boat
- 1920Drink Hearty — George Washington Tarfoot Lee
- 1920Get Out and Get Under — Small Boy (uncredited)
- 1920Getting His Goat
- 1920Grab the Ghost — Servant's Child
- 1920Haunted Spooks — Little Boy (uncredited)
- 1920Live and Learn
- 1920Number, Please? — Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)
- 1920Park Your Car
- 1920Red Hot Hottentotts
- 1920Run 'Em Ragged
- 1920The Dippy Dentist — Messenger Boy
- 1920Waltz Me Around — Sunny
- 1920Why Go Home?
- 1919Call for Mr. Caveman — Little Henry Hercules
- 1919Daddy Number Two
- 1919Giving the Bride Away
- 1919Peggy Does Her Darndest — Snowball Snow
- 1919Start Something
- 1919The Old Maid's Baby — George Washington Joffre Foch Pershing Johnson
- 1919The Sawdust Doll — Sambo
- 1919Tough Luck
- 1918Dolly Does Her Bit — Sambo
- 1917Captain Kiddo