Al Kikume

Al Kikume was an American actor, musician, and bandleader of Hawaiian descent. He was a frequently featured musical performer—on radio, preceding silent film screenings, and at miscellaneous live events—during the 1920s and early thirties, as well as a familiar face among supporting actors in Hollywood jungle movies during the thirties, forties and fifties.

Early life and career

Kikume was born in Kauaʻi County, Hawaii. Kikume's first credited screen appearance was as "Chief Mehevi" in John Ford's The Hurricane (1937). ==Personal life and death==

Personal life and death

By no later than 1911, Kikume was married to Virgil Edna Smith, with whom he had one son, Bernard Kikume Gozier, aka Bernie Gozier. appearing in at least one film, Green Dolphin Street, alongside his father. Kikume died in Los Angeles on March 27, 1972. ==Partial filmography==

Partial filmography

• Hula (1937) – Native musician accompanying Clara Bow's hula dance • Tarzan the Fearless (1933) • The Perils of Pauline (1933) serial • The Hurricane (1937) – Chief Mehevi • Air Devils (1938) – Don Kahano • Mandrake the Magician (1939) serial • Typhoon (1940) • South of Pago Pago (1940) • Jungle Girl (1941) serial • Perils of Nyoka (1942) serial • White Savage (1943) • She Gets Her Man (1945) – Joe • Song of the Sarong (1945) • Green Dolphin Street (1947) • On the Isle of Samoa (1950) – Chief Tihati • Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) ==References==

Source: Wikipedia ↗

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