Spencer Williams
- Acting
- July 14, 1893 · Vidalia, Louisiana, USA
- December 13, 1969
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy · Self
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen · Self
- Bourbon Street Beat
- Amos 'n' Andy · Andy Brown
- Rhapsody of Negro Life · Spencer Jordan, Director
- Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. · Old Hager, Director
- Juke Joint · Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney, Director
- Jivin' in Be-Bop · Director
- Girl in Room 20 · Joe Phillips, Director
- Beale Street Mama · Bad News Johnson, Director
- The Negro Sailor · Frank Roberts - columnist
- Harlem Hotshots · Director
- Go Down, Death! · Big Jim Bottoms, Director
- Of One Blood · Wesley Hill, Director
- Marching On! · Director, Writer
- Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus · Writer, Director
- The Blood of Jesus · Razz Jackson, Producer
- Son of Ingagi · Detective Nelson, Story
- Bad Boy · Terry
- Harlem Rides the Range · Watson, Screenplay
- The Bronze Buckaroo · Pete
- Two-Gun Man from Harlem · Butch Carter
- Harlem on the Prairie · Doc Clayburn
- Hot Biskits · Director, Writer
- Georgia Rose · Ezra
- Brown Gravy
- The Lady Fare · Writer
- The Widow's Bite
- The Framing of the Shrew · Lawyer Evans Chew
- Melancholy Mama · Webster Dill