Spencer Williams
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Spencer Williams was an African American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing Andy in the Amos 'n Andy television show and for directing the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus. Williams was a pioneer African-American film producer and director.
Known for
Credits
Georgia Rose (1930)
as Ezra
Juke Joint (1947)
as Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
The Framing of the Shrew (1929)
as Lawyer Evans Chew
Son of Ingagi (1940)
as Detective Nelson
Girl in Room 20 (1946)
as Joe Phillips
Hot Biskits (1931)
Actor
Go Down Death (1944)
as Big Jim Bottoms
The Negro Sailor (1945)
as Frank Roberts - columnist
Of One Blood (1944)
as Wesley Hill
Beale Street Mama (1946)
as Bad News Johnson
Rhapsody of Negro Life (1949)
as Spencer Jordan
Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus (1942)
Actor
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Harlem Rides the Range (1939)
as Watson
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1947)
as Old Hager
The Bronze Buckaroo (1939)
as Pete
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983)
as Self
Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938)
as Butch Carter
The Blood of Jesus (1941)
as Razz Jackson
Melancholy Dame (1929)
as Webster Dill
The Widow's Bite (1929)
Actor
Brown Gravy (1929)
Actor
Harlem on the Prairie (1937)
as Doc Clayburn
Bad Boy (1939)
as Terry
The Lady Fare (1929)
Actor