Dooley Wilson
Career Wilson worked in black theatre in Chicago and New York from 1908 to the 1930s, in motion pictures and Broadway musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and played Bill Jackson on the television situation comedy Beulah during its final 1952–1953 season. He received the nickname "Dooley" while working in the Pekin Theatre in Chicago, circa 1908, because of his ...