Earl Cameron, one of the principal dark on-screen characters to have an unmistakable job in British TV and film, passed on Friday at 102 years old.

As indicated by Cameron’s operator, he “died calmly at home encompassed by his significant other and family” in Kenilworth in Warwickshire, reports Deadline.

Cameron was conceived in Bermuda in 1917, moving to the U.K in 1939

He joined the British Merchant Navy and by 1941 had his first job in a play called “Chu Chin Chow”.

“At the point when I showed up in London, I had no capabilities for anything. It was a period when it was practically incomprehensible for an individual of color to land any sort of position,” Cameron revealed to The Royal Gazette in 2018.

Cameron kept on being a piece of numerous plays, movies, and network shows for a mind-blowing duration; his last job was a little part in Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film “Initiation”.

In 2006, Cameron was named as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and in 2016 he was drafted into the Britain Screen Nation Hall of Fame.

A considerable lot of his partners have connected in help, expressing that Cameron was an “all-out legend,” and “laid the foundation for on-screen characters today”

One of his children said-

” Our family has been overpowered by the outpourings of adoration and regard we have gotten at the updates on our dad’s passing,” said one of his kids to The Guardian.

“As a craftsman and as an on-screen character, he wouldn’t take jobs that disparaged or generalized the character of minorities. He was really a man who remained by his ethical standards and was persuasive.”