Veteran
Actor hailed for his roles in Pool of London, Guns at Batasi and Thunderball
The long career of the actor Earl Cameron, who has died aged 102, mirrored changes in both
British cinema and society. His debut, playing a West Indian merchant seaman, was in the ostensibly modest film noir Pool of
London (1951). In retrospect it can be seen as a milestone in its depiction of a relationship between a black worker and a young white woman – the first time the subject had been sensitively handled in a British film.