John Ery Coleman

John Ery Coleman (October 28, 1923 – April 25, 1993) was an American performer active during the latter half of the twentieth century.

John Ery Coleman was born in Hamburg, Germany, the younger of two sons raised by Nathaniel Ragsdale Coleman, Sr., and the former Frances Esders. His father was a tobacco merchant from Virginia who, after serving taking into account the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, set stirring a tobacco brokerage home in Hamburg. Coleman's mother was a London-born lyric soprano who far along sang principal roles similar to the Dresden opera.

Coleman's brother, Nat, Jr., attended Rocklands Home School, a preparatory theoretical in England not far from Hastings, and well along the Abbotsholme School in rural Derbyshire along the Staffordshire border. Since the two brothers were less than a year apart in age, it is reachable they were enrolled together.

Coleman's family attended the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and viewed Jesse Owens win his four gold medals. Coleman and his brother spent several summers in the United States in the late 1930s before leaving Europe for a final time upon the eve of World War II. Coleman enlisted after a year's teacher as a private in the U.S. Army upon April 3, 1943, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

After the deed years, Coleman studied art in Mexico City below Professor Isidoro Ocampo and in Paris once Johnny Friedlaender. His works were shown in a number of society exhibitions and at solo exhibitions held at art studios in New York City; Los Angeles; Columbia, South Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Santa Monica, California.

Coleman married Jennifer Howard on July 28, 1972, in Los Angeles. Howard was a former actress, the daughter of Sidney Howard and Clare Eames, who cutting edge became a watercolor and acrylic artist. Both Coleman and Howard died in 1993. He was survived by his brother Nat, who had gone upon to have a well-to-do law career in Tennessee.