{{Short description|Jamaican photographer and playwright (1908–1990)}} '''Archie Lindo''' OD (20 January 1908 – 2 April 1990) was a Jamaican photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster.<ref name=obit>[https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1990-04-04/ ''The Daily Gleaner''], 4 April 1990.</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20131025/ent/ent1.html | title=Archie Lindo covered, produced the arts| date=25 October 2013|author=Michael Reckord|work=The Gleaner}}</ref><ref name="Lindo1945">{{cite book|author=Archie Lindo|title=My Heart was Singing: Poems and Short Stories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st_jAQAACAAJ|year=1945|publisher=B.W.I., College Press}}</ref> He was one of the most successful Jamaican playwrights of the 1940s.<ref name="MordecaiMordecai2001">{{cite book|author1=Martin Mordecai|author2=Pamela Mordecai|title=Culture and Customs of Jamaica|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313305344|url-access=registration|quote=archie lindo.|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30534-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313305344/page/168 168]–}}</ref> His photographs are part of the National Gallery of Jamaica collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/explorations-iv-masculinities-gallery-3-the-male-body-as-icon-precarious-masculinities/archie-lindo-irish-moss-gatherersrgb/#main|title=Archie Lindo – Irish Moss Gatherers(rgb)|date=December 3, 2015}}</ref> He received the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica as well as an Order of Distinction from the government.<ref name=two/> He was also an art critic for ''The Star'' from 1960.<ref name=obit/>
Lindo was a member of the Poetry League of Jamaica and was a columnist for ''The Gleaner''.<ref name=two>{{cite web|url=http://gleaner-jamaica.com/gleaner/20131101/ent/ent3.html|title=Islandwide by road, airwaves - Archie Lindo produces plays, programmes|author=Michael Reckord|date=1 November 2013|work=gleaner-jamaica.com|accessdate=6 July 2019}}</ref> Left in charge of Jamaica's only radio station at the time, ZQI, he broadcast local programming including Louise Bennett and the Jamaica Military Band. The radio station was succeeded by RJR.<ref name=two/>
==Bibliography== *''Under the Skin'', a play<ref name="ArnoldRodríguez-Luis2001">{{cite book|author1=Albert James Arnold|author2=Julio Rodríguez-Luis|author3=J. Michael Dash|title=A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uH_4yAahYkC&dq=archie+lindo&pg=PA297|date=1 January 2001|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=90-272-3448-5|page=297}}</ref> *''The Maroon'', a play
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