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Paul Danquah
Paul Danquah, born Joseph Paul Walcott〔(''The London Gazette'' ), 3 November 1950, p. 5514.〕 (born 25 May 1925), was a British film actor, known particularly for his role in the 1961 film ''A Taste of Honey''. He was also a barrister and a bank consultant.〔Christopher Isherwood, (""Danquah, Paul" ), ''The Sixties — Diaries, Volume 2: 1960-1969'', Random House, 2010, pp. 624–25.〕 His father was the Ghanaian statesman J. B. Danquah.
==Life and career==
He was born in London, England, where he grew up.〔("Paul Danquah Biography" ), IMDb.〕 He studied law and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, as well as in Ghana and in Washington, DC. He subsequently worked as a consultant with the World Bank until his retirement in 1986,〔〔 and while living in Washington befriended African-American arts practitioners including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Roberta Flack and Nina Simone.〔("What I Learned From My Auntie Maya" ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', 28 May 2014.〕
In 1961, while still a student, Danquah made his acting debut in the British film ''A Taste of Honey'', starring as Jimmy.〔 He presented the television series ''Play School'' and is reported to have been the first black presenter of a children's programme.
Francis Bacon lived with Danquah and Danquah's partner Peter Pollock (1919–2001)〔 in their Battersea flat from 1956 to 1961.〔 During this period, in late 1961, Danquah arranged for Don Bachardy to draw Bacon. Danquah moved with Pollock to Tangier in the late 1970s.〔 In the late 1990s Danquah and Pollock discovered a suitcase containing drawings by Bacon; these drawings were acquired by The Tate in 1996 and exhibited in 1999.
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