Spencer Williams
Born: 1893-07-14 in Vidalia, Louisiana, USA
Died: 1969-12-13
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1983
1975
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1959
1951
- Amos 'n' Andy as Andrew H. "Andy" Brown
1949
- Rhapsody of Negro Life as Spencer Jordan
1947
- Juke Joint as Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
1946
- Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. as Old Hager
- Girl in Room 20 as Joe Phillips
- Beale Street Mama as Bad News Johnson
- Jivin' in Bebop ... (Director)
1945
- The Negro Sailor as Frank Roberts - columnist
- Harlem Hotshots ... (Director)
1944
- Go Down Death as Big Jim Bottoms
- Of One Blood as Wesley Hill
1943
- Marching On! ... (Director)
1941
- The Blood of Jesus as Razz Jackson
1940
- Son of Ingagi as Detective Nelson
1939
- Bad Boy as Terry
- The Bronze Buckaroo as Pete
- Harlem Rides the Range as Watson
1938
- Two-Gun Man from Harlem as Butch Carter
1937
- Harlem on the Prairie as Doc Clayburn
1931
1930
- Georgia Rose as Ezra
1929
- Melancholy Dame as Webster Dill
- The Widow's Bite
- The Framing of the Shrew as Lawyer Evans Chew
- Brown Gravy
- The Lady Fare