Chink Snowden

born: 23 November 1889
San Francisco, California,
United States of America
died: 01 March 1949
San Bernadino, California,
United States of America
(age 59)

Black American jazz musician and pianist.
Real name: Theodore Rodgers Snowden
Height: 6'1"
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1917
Lonesome Luke On Tin Can Alley
Jazz musician

Acknowledgements & sources:
The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd (book)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9PQ-H5K (1900 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV2Q-7RB (1910 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZVT-SHP (WWI draft reg. card)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCRX-RP8 (1920 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6MZW-KMZM (1929-30 Santa Barbara City Directory)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DBQ8-TRT2 (1929-30 Santa Barbara City Directory)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCVN-YSK (1930 Census)
Theodore Rodgers Snowden, "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942" (Ancestry.com)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPDQ-KR2 (CA Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W34Z-TJT2 (U.S. Veterans Adm. Master Index)
https://archive.org/details/la_caleagle_reel3/page/n329/mode/1up?view=theater (California Eagle, 30 Nov 1918)
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093377/1934-07-19/ed-1/seq-4/ (Northwest Enterprise, 19 Jul 1934)
https://archive.org/details/la_caleagle_reel25/page/n384/mode/1up?view=theater&q=snowden (California Eagle, 17 Feb 1943)
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19490303.1.10 (San Bernardino Daily Sun, 03 Mar 1949)
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19490304.1.22 (San Bernardino Daily Sun, 04 Mar 1949)
https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:45978 (1930 photo, with Clem Raymond's Band)
https://archive.org/details/jazzonbarbarycoa0000stod/page/145/mode/1up?view=theater&q=%22chink+snowden%22 ('Jazz on the Barbary Coast' by Tom Stoddard)
Jesse Brisson (research and information)
Jim Jarvis (height)

This page was last updated on: 17 October 2021