Godfrey Cambridge

American comedian and actor. Born February 26, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. Died November 29, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA. In 1949 he received a four-year scholarship to Hofstra College to study medicine,which he attended for three years before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. Cambridge died of a heart attack at the age of 43 while on the Burbank, California set of the ABC television movie Victory at Entebbe, in which he was to portray Idi Amin.