Spencer Williams
July 14, 1893 (131 years old) in Vidalia, Louisiana, USA
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
- 1983 · Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy as Self
- 1975 · Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 1959 · Bourbon Street Beat as
- 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
- 1946 · Beale Street Mama as Bad News Johnson
- 1946 · The Girl in Room 20 as Joe Phillips
- 1945 · The Negro Sailor as Frank Roberts - columnist
- 1944 · Of One Blood as Wesley Hill
- 1944 · Go Down Death as Big Jim Bottoms
- 1942 · Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus as
- 1941 · The Blood of Jesus as Razz Jackson
- 1940 · Son of Ingagi as Detective Nelson
- 1939 · Bad Boy as Terry
- 1939 · Harlem Rides the Range as Watson
- 1939 · The Bronze Buckaroo as Pete
- 1938 · Two-Gun Man from Harlem as Butch Carter
- 1937 · Harlem on the Prairie as Doc Clayburn
- 1931 · Hot Biskits as
- 1930 · Georgia Rose as Ezra
- 1929 · Brown Gravy as
- 1929 · The Lady Fare as
- 1929 · The Widow's Bite as
- 1929 · The Framing of the Shrew as Lawyer Evans Chew
- 1929 · Melancholy Dame as Webster Dill