Born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, May 3, 1907, in New York, NY; died of a heart attack, May 9, 1952, in New York, NY; son of James Cornelius and Lydia (Whaley) Canegata; married Juanita Waller, 1925 (divorced); children: Carl Vincent. Politics : Democrat.

May 3, 2025 - His film credits include Alfred Hitchcock’s "Lifeboat" and Robert Rossen’s "Body and Soul." He was known for his dignified presence, a rare image for Black screen actors of that time. Canada Lee died from uremic poisoning on May 5th, 1952.

cause of death · myocardial infarction · 0 references · place of burial · Woodlawn Cemetery · 1 reference · stated in · Find a Grave · retrieved · 28 June 2024 · spouse · Frances Lee Pearson · 0 references · child · Carl Lee · ...

February 7, 2025 - Lee bled into his chest and experienced hemorrhagic shock — the progressive death of internal organs due to blood loss, Dr. Magdaleni Bellis said. Bellis also found Lee had another, smaller stab wound by his armpit as well as more than a dozen ...

3 weeks ago - Lee, who appeared on Season 27 of the reality competition show, had recently been in the ICU after flu complications led to a series of cardiac arrests, according to a GoFundMe organized for her.

Cause of Death · Heart Attack · Read More · One of the premier black stage actors of the late 1930s and 40s. A former jockey, violinist, orchestra leader and boxer before settling down to acting in 1936, Lee made his debut with the WPA's ...

October 28, 2025 - Their relationship lasted almost 30 years until Lee's death. Lee suffered a heroin addiction that caused him to contract AIDS from a dirty hypodermic needle. He died from a heroin overdose in 1986. In a 2000 interview, filmmaker James Toback stated "In the sort of hip world of New York, Carl ...

He died of a heart attack, a few days before another blacklisted actor, John Garfield, his co-star in "Body and Soul." His real name was Lionel Canegata. Read More ... Sign-in to cast your vote.

October 6, 2025 - Labeled a Communist by the FBI and HUAC as early as 1943, Lee was pilloried during the notorious Judith Coplon spy trial in 1949 and condemned in Ed Sullivan's column. He died penniless at forty-five in 1952, a heartbroken casualty of a dangerous era. After nearly a decade of research, Mona Z. Smith revives the legacy of a pioneering African American actor and a tragic victim of the Hollywood blacklist in Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee.

2 weeks ago - Tommy Lee Jones' daughter Victoria has died at the age of 34, and the dispatch audio for the 9-1-1 call reveals that the incident was classified as a "code 3 for the overdose, color change."

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June 29, 2008 - Canada Lee (the adopted name of Lionel Cornelius Canegata) was a noted 20th Century jockey, boxer, and actor. Born on May 3, 1907 in New York City’s San Juan Hill district, he attended Public School 5 in Harlem. Canegata began his musical education at the age of seven, studying violin with ...

3 weeks ago - The reality star suffered multiple cardiac arrests following flu complications shortly before her death, according to family members.

March 30, 2021 - Santa Barbara Police confirmed that highly followed Instagram personality and world traveler Lee MacMillan, 28, was hit and killed by a train last Friday by the intersection of State and Hollister roads in Noleta.

If Canada Lee had been born 10 years later, he might still be a household name. He was the Sugar Ray Robinson of his day and “the best Negro actor of his time,” according to The Ring magazine and the New York Times, respectively. But cruel circumstances, and even crueler people, colluded ...

An indefatigable champion of human ... blacklist ended Lee's career, and his early death is often attributed to the McCarthy witch hunt....

August 11, 2025 - Government to defame his reputation and destroy his career. Lee died in 1952 at the age of 45 and remains all but forgotten. Canada Lee, Native Son endeavors to reclaim the legacy of a great performer, patriot and pioneer.

May 8, 2020 - 1952 publicity photo for the Canada Lee Foundation of Frances Lee posing with a bust of Canada Lee. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (a research division of The New York Public Library), located in the Harlem area of upper New York City, holds all the materials donated by Frances shortly before her death.

November 17, 2024 - I first learned about Canada Lee (1907-52) from Denise Oswald, my editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. One of the books ahead of mine in the FSG pipeline was Mona Z. Smith's Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee, which Denise was also editing. This was the first biography ever about this major African American…

Death of actor Canada Lee (45), New York City. Former boxer-turned-actor Canada Lee makes a strong impression in the 1944 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Lifeboat (FoxVideo). In the 1947 John Garfield boxing classic Body and Soul (Republic), Lee gives a sensit...