Sir Lancelot

Sir Lancelot was born on Mar 24, 1902 in British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. Sir Lancelot's big-screen debut came with Happy Go Lucky directed by Curtis Bernhardt in 1943, strarring Calypso Singer. Sir Lancelot is known for Brute Force directed by Jules Dassin, Burt Lancaster stars as Joe Collins and Hume Cronyn as Capt. Munsey. The upcoming new movie Sir Lancelot plays is My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters which will be released on Jun 16, 1999.

He was born Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard, to well-to-do Anglophile parents in Trinidad. Oddly though, it wasn't until schooling took him to New York City in 1940 that he discovered a love of calypso music. In a profession where successful artists commonly took names like King Radio or Lord Invader, it was natural for someone named Lancelot to choose the stage name Sir Lancelot, and with that name he wrote and performed calypso (with some acting on the side) for movies, live theater, and radio beginning in the 1940's.