Handsome Norman Astwood was a talented actor and singer from the 1920s to the early 1940s. He also became a leading actor of the race film genre (Black Cinema) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Norman Astwood was born in the British West Indies and was educated at Wolmer's. He was a Jamaican who grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and in 1912, he and ...