Johnny Lee

John Dotson Lee Jr. (July 4, 1898 – December 12, 1965) was an American singer, dancer and actor known for voicing the role of Brer Rabbit in Disneys Song of the South (1946) and as the clownish, cringing, tremulous-voiced shyster pseudo-lawyer Algonquin J. Calhoun in the CBS Amos n Andy TV and radio comedy series in the early 1950s. Much of his career was spent in vaudeville, but he also performed in motion pictures, on recordings and in television. He released a record (as Johnnie Lee) in July 1949 called You Cant Lose A Broken Heart (Columbia Records # 30172), with backup vocals by The Ebonaires. Lee also starred in an all-black musical comedy called Sugar Hill in 1949 at Las Palmas Theatre in California.He died of a heart attack on December 12, 1965 age 67.

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