Spoiler : Born in Baltimore, Maryland 8/16/1901; died 9/19/1950 of heart disease. He began his career on stage with a minstrel show as a song-and-dance man while still in his teens, then was a major black star in vaudeville and on Broadway in productions including Hot Chocolates.

Spoiler : In 1916, Green wrote "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," one of the biggest song hits of that era. The publishing rights were bought in 1918 by the noted African-American songwriter/publisher W. C. Handy, who went on to make a fortune off the song -- but Handy was careful to arrange the terms of the contract to ensure that he made all the profits and Green got next to nothing.

Spoiler : Green remained a stage star on the black-oriented TOBA vaudeville circuit during the twenties, becoming a great favorite of African-American audiences, and went on to appear in several all- black Broadway revues in the late twenties and early thirties. He wrote the book for "Blackberries of 1932," a stage revue featuring many of the leading black comedians of the era (Tim Moore -- later the TV Kingfish -- was also featured in this show, along with Mantan Moreland, Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, and Moms Mabley.) Unfortunately, "Blackberries" was presented at a time when the musical theatre was severely crippled by the Depression, and the show flopped. On screen in What Goes Up (1939); Duffy's Tavern (1945).

Spoiler : Green made his radio debut in 1932, forming a comedy team with Ernest Whitman, they were billed as, "the only colored comics" in network radio. Green was a featured cast member on The Gibson Family for NBC-Radio (1934-1935), by June of 1935, the program began known as Uncle Charlie's Tent Show with Whitman and Eddie Green playing playing Sam and Jerry, a pair of comedic circus roustabouts on the series until it ended.

Spoiler : Co-star of Louis Armstrong's Harlem Revue, a black-oriented variety series heard on NBC-Blue for Fleischmann's Yeast (1936). That same year (1936), Green became possibly the first African- American performer to appear on television in America, when he performed a routine in a special experimental telecast put on by NBC to inaugurate the earliest version of their all-electronic television system.

Spoiler : Regular performer on radio programs including Tommy Riggs And Betty Lou for NBC (1939-1940); The Fabulous Doctor Tweedy for NBC (1946-1947). Eddie the waiter on Duffy's Tavern for the CBS and NBC Radio Networks (1940-1952). Stonewall Jackson on Amos 'N' Andy for the NBC and CBS Radio Networks (1943-1954).

Spoiler : Thanx, Jack! I just found this September 23, 2018.