Spencer Williams
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting History
1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy as Self
1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1959Bourbon Street Beat
1951Amos 'n' Andy as Andrew H. "Andy" Brown
1949Rhapsody of Negro Life as Spencer Jordan
1947Juke Joint as Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
1946Girl in Room 20 as Joe Phillips
1946Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. as Old Hager
1946Beale Street Mama as Bad News Johnson
1945The Negro Sailor as Frank Roberts - columnist
1944Go Down Death as Big Jim Bottoms
1944Of One Blood as Wesley Hill
1942Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus
1941The Blood of Jesus as Razz Jackson
1940Son of Ingagi as Detective Nelson
1939Bad Boy as Terry
1939Harlem Rides the Range as Watson
1939The Bronze Buckaroo as Pete
1938Two-Gun Man from Harlem as Butch Carter
1937Harlem on the Prairie as Doc Clayburn
1931Hot Biskits
1930Georgia Rose as Ezra
1929Brown Gravy
1929The Lady Fare
1929The Widow's Bite
1929The Framing of the Shrew as Lawyer Evans Chew
1929Melancholy Dame as Webster Dill