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- Birth nameWilliam Benjamin Franklin Crowell
- William Crowell was born on July 20, 1877 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for A Son of Satan (1924), Beyond the Great Wall (1920) and Birthright (1924). He died on July 30, 1929 in Roanoke, Virginia, USA.
- Served as Corporal, Company K, 3rd North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Colored) during the Spanish-American War; worked as a waiter in a hotel, farm laborer, and as an insurance agent for the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company; in the '20s, was Vice President of Oscar Micheaux' Micheaux Film Corporation, described as "Producers and Distributors of High Class Negro Photoplays."
- Served as Corporal, Company K, 3rd North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Colored) during the Spanish-American War; worked as a waiter in a hotel, farm laborer, and as an insurance agent for the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company.
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