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