As per our current Database, Maceo Bruce Sheffield has been died on 20 August, 1959 at Los Angeles County, California, USA.
When Maceo Bruce Sheffield die, Maceo Bruce Sheffield was 62 years old.
| Popular As | Maceo Bruce Sheffield |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 62 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Born | September 8, 1897 (Texas, USA) |
| Birthday | September 8 |
| Town/City | Texas, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Maceo Bruce Sheffield’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.
Maceo Bruce Sheffield was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Maceo Sheffield was a Los Angeles based actor who appeared in the majority of race films made in California, not only did he appear in many of them, he produced and wrote many of them. Because of his girth, size, and imposing features Maceo was excellent at playing villains and tough, intimidating men.
Before his acting days, Maceo was already very well known around Los Angeles, he was considered quite a character who some feared, so maybe the fearsome characters on screen he portrayed was art imitating life.
Maceo was a police detective of high ranking in the 1920's and early 1930's but unscrupulous incidents surrounding him possibly ended his career as a policeman. In the mid-1930s, he ventured into show business as an actor, producer, then he owned and ran quite a few nightclubs along Central Avenue, an area of Los Angeles that was migrated by a black population.
He always lived as big as he was, some of his other ventures included being a commercial pilot as well.Maceo Sheffield was a larger then life figure who was very memorable to the Los Angeles community and to movie audiences.
In the movies Maceo Sheffield played men you love to hate and he loved playing such villains, he always played the tough guy roles with an believable force, but never one to be overly dramatic, Maceo had the gift of making you believe he was a bad guy without overacting, and he showed he was a versatile actor by playing characters that could be likable and humorous like in "Lucky Ghost" and "Look Out Sister.
" Quite a few of the films he starred in are available to enjoy Maceo Sheffield's talent. There are books that include tidbits about Maceo Sheffield and his significance in the then prosperous 1930s and 1940s Black Los Angeles, the titles are The Great Black Way: L.
A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, and Buck Clayton's Jazz World.
