Joseph Attles (April 7, 1903 – October 29, 1990) was an American character actor of the legitimate theater, vaudeville and motion pictures. Attles was born on April 7, 1903, in James Island, South Carolina. Prior to becoming a full-time performer, he was a postal clerk and a singer in the choir at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York. Attles's Broadway credits included Blackbirds of 1928 (1928), Kwamina (1961), Tambourines to Glory (1963), and A Cry of Players (1968). When he was not in a current play, he held other jobs, including being a waiter in a dining car on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Attles died of prostate cancer on October 29, 1990, in Charleston, South Carolina.

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