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      • Actor Godfrey Cambridge was born in New York City in 1933 and grew up in Harlem with his parents, Sarah and Alexander Cambridge.
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  1. Death. Cambridge died of a heart attack on November 29, 1976, at the age of 43, while on the Burbank, California, set of the ABC television movie Victory at Entebbe, in which he was to portray Idi Amin (he was replaced by Julius Harris). [2] Amin commented that Cambridge's death was "punishment from God." [17]

  2. February 26, 1933. November 29, 1976. Actor Godfrey Cambridge was born in New York City in 1933 and grew up in Harlem with his parents, Sarah and Alexander Cambridge. He attended Flushing High School, where he excelled as both a student and a leader of extracurricular activities.

  3. Jun 5, 2019 · Godfrey Cambridge was born on February 26, 1933, in New York City, New York, to an immigrant couple from British Guiana. His parents lived in Sydney and Nova Scotia before moving to Harlem, New York. His father Alexander Cambridge worked as a day laborer, while his mother Sarah Cambridge was a garment factory worker.

  4. Cambridge died of a heart attack on November 29, 1976, at the age of 43, while on the Burbank, California, set of the ABC television movie Victory at Entebbe, in which he was to portray Idi Amin. Amin commented that Cambridge's death was "punishment from God."

  5. Oct 14, 2010 · Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge, actor and comedian, was born in New York City in 1933. His father Alexander Cambridge and his mother Sarah Cambridge were born in British Guiana. They moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada and then Harlem, New York.

  6. Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby , Dick Gregory , and Nipsey Russell , he was acclaimed by Time in 1965 as "one of the country's foremost celebrated Negro comedians."

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  8. February 26, 1933 · New York City, New York, USA. Died. November 29, 1976 · Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Birth name. Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge. Biography. Cambridge won a four-year scholarship to study medicine at Hofstra University but decided, instead, to become an actor, leaving college in his third year.