Shadrach Jones — Night in New Orleans Character Profile

About Shadrach Jones

A house man at the Mississippi Inn who provides assistance to Ethel Abbott during her independent investigation into the Wallace family murders.

Character Facts

Played by

Dooley Wilson

Appears in

Night in New Orleans (1942)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Shadrach Jones — Social Colleagues — Janet Price (Jean Phillips)

  Co-workers stationed at the same riverfront establishment.

• Shadrach Jones — Professional Police Chief — Dan Odell (Cecil Kellaway)

  Law enforcement authority and local informant providing investigative support.

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More characters from Night in New Orleans

• Police Lt. Steve Abbott (Preston Foster)
• Ethel Abbott (Patricia Morison)
• Police Lieutenant William Richards (Albert Dekker)
• Edward Wallace (Charles Butterworth)
• Sergeant Casper Riordan (Paul Hurst)
• Carney (Noble Johnson)
• Dan Odell (Cecil Kellaway)
• George Wallace (William Wright)
• Carlson (Joe Pope)
• Janet Price (Jean Phillips)
• Sal, Shadrach's Girl (uncredited) (Dorothy Dandridge)
• Police Sergeant Bliss (Arthur Loft)