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