Lorenzo Tucker is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/riverside.asp.  Inspired to act as a child after watching a film about the 369th Colored Regiment in World War I, Lorenzo Tucker began his career on Vaudeville and Broadway stages alongside performers Bessie Smith and Mae West. Known as the "black Valentino," he starred in eleven films from 1927–1936 directed by African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Sergeant Tucker served as a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps during World War II, then returned to Hollywood. In the 1950s, Tucker established the Negro Drama Players, a troupe that toured the Jim Crow South performing Broadway shows with an all-black cast. He received an Audelco Recognition Award for stimulating the arts in black communities in 1981. He died August 19, 1986.
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