Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. Net Worth is $12 Million
Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Al Freeman, Jr. was an actor and director who was the first African American to win a Daytime Emmy Award for acting. His most famous role was that of Police Captain Ed Hall in the soap opera One Life to Live (1968), which brought him the Emmy in 1979. He was a regular on the soap from 1972 through 1987, and appeared off and on as Captain Hall from...
Originally cast as in the role of Red Salter in Cool Red (1976). When he was unable to complete filming due to illness and other commitments, his scenes were re-shot with Greg Morris in the role.
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Al Freeman Jr. has taught at Howard University for the last 16 years. He teaches Speech for the Microphone, Junior Level Acting: Character/Scene study, and Senior Level: Acting for TV and Film. He lives on a boat on the Waterfront in Washington DC. [August 1988]
Up until his death, Freeman was a professor at Howard University, in the Department of Theatre Arts, teaching acting. He served as Chairman/Artistic Director of the Department for six years.
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Freeman earned an NAACP Image Award for playing Malcolm X's mentor in Spike Lee's 1992 film, Malcolm X (1992).
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He made his big screen debut in 1960's melodrama, This Rebel Breed (1960).
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Freeman Jr. is likely best-known to daytime-drama fans for his lengthy stint as "Lt. Ed Hall" on One Life to Live (1968) - a role that won him a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1979, and setting his place in history as the first African-American actor to win that specific award.
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The actor had a 40-year career in film and television.
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Played Sidney Poitier's Oscar-winning role in the musical stage version of Lilies of the Field (1963) entitled "Look to the Lilies" in 1970. Co-starring Shirley Booth, it ran only 25 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
$12 Million
