Draft:Walter Weems

Walter Weems was a screenwriter. Earlier in his career he was a vaudeville Blackface performer on a tuba. He moved to Hollywood to write screenplays. A cartoon of him appeared in a calendar for 1919. Thomas Cripps described him as an "old Southern minstrel man."

Family He was white.

He performed in Australia in Tivoli Folloes in 1916 (someone else?) Tivoli Follies)

Clarence Muse credits him with writing Stepin Fetchit's slow character for a fast dancing performer.

Actor

 * For the Freedom of the World (1917)

Writer

 * The Olympic Hero (1928), co-wrote
 * Hearts in Dixie (1929)
 * Anybody's War (1930), co-writer (also acted in as as Sergeant Skipp)
 * Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931), co-wrote
 * A Merchant of Menace (1933), co-wrote with Leslie Goodwin (directed by Harry Sweet)
 * Conflict (1936 film) (1936), co-wrote screenplay adaptation
 * Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941)
 * Lost in Limehouse, co-wrote screenplay with Harrington Reynolds

Other works

 * "The Male Morning" (1927), a playlet
 * "Harpoon" (1944)

Discography

 * "Henry VIII"
 * "He Peddles His Bristles to Women"
 * "I've Got Those Dinkum Aussie Blues" (1924), words