Handy's father, a reverend who rejects music outside church hymns as sinful. He destroys the trumpet Handy buys as a boy and later discourages his son's jazz ambitions. After hearing Handy's music at a concert in New York, he changes his mind and embraces his son and his composing career.
Art Hazzard is a Black jazzman who tutors Rick Martin and helps shape him into an outstanding, intuitive trumpet player. Later, he finds Rick Martin drinking and gently tries to advise him. After Rick Martin lashes out at him, Art Hazzard wanders into traffic and dies, leaving Rick Martin devastated and increasingly self-destructive.
Lucas is a Black man accused of murdering Vinson Gowrie. He asks Chick to get John Gavin Stevens as his attorney and is later shown to have saved Chick from drowning. Lucas points to evidence about the murder, knows the identity of Vinson's partner but cannot identify the shooter, and is freed when the investigation exposes his innocence.
An African-American judge who presides over Angel Chavez's case. After Blake argues that Angel's age permits an indeterminate sentence at a reform school, Motley accepts that course with the prosecutor's consent. He also sentences Barney Castle to 30 days in jail for contempt after Castle attempts to race-bait him.
A largely westernized Maori chief and grandfather of Matawhero. He respects Anna for teaching his grandson and supports the community's collective approach to raising Whareparita's unborn child without requiring marriage to the father.
A senior Mau Mau leader who administers initiation oaths and guides the rebellion's early phases. After being captured and tortured, he is swayed by Henry’s appeal to traditional beliefs and acknowledges the movement's moral contradictions before passing leadership to Kimani.
Juano Hernández has 29 screen credits in a career dating back to 1914. Signature works include Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed, Kiss Me Deadly, Intruder in the Dust. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
