Inez Ramey

born: 09 April 1897
St. Louis, Missouri,
United States of America
died: 20 March 1942
Los Angeles, California,
United States of America
(anesthetic death/breast cancer, age 44)

Black American actress. In 1924, she married porter Wright Cuney Anderson (1898-1948), who survived her upon her 1942 passing. In the 1930 U.S. Census, she gives her occupation as actress in motion pictures. Her death certificate says she succumbed to "anesthetic death" due to "left empyema - rt. hydrothorax - lt. atelectasis" (3 mos.) and "carcinoma - metastatic - left breast" (10 years); an operation on 21 October 1941 found "Cancer lt. breast - recurrent." She is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles.
She later claimed a birth year of 1900; 1897 is confirmed by the 1900 and 1910 U.S. Censuses.
Real name: Inez H. Hurt
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1926
Mama Behave
Hat check girl

Acknowledgements:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3DZ-ZCQ (1900 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M21V-3LK (1910 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DQL-5FPS (1915 marriage)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8NW-1FH (1924 marriage)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCVF-P5B (1930 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9Z9-1GD (1940 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPQS-9D1 (CA Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2Y-CNZX (death certificate)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W8FK-6MMM (cemetery record)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/693160597/ (California Eagle, 04 Dec 1925)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/692876756/ (California Eagle, 16 Aug 1929)
https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?county=Los+Angeles&keyword=%22inez+ramey%22&region=us-ca&sort=paper-date-asc (Newspapers.com, search)
https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date-end=1942&date-start=1924&keyword=%22inez+anderson%22&publication-ids=26218&sort=paper-date-asc (Newspapers.com, search)
Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in Mama Behave)

This page was last updated on: 08 January 2026