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Spencer Williams
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…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Movie Self
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1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1959
Bourbon Street Beat
TV show
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1951
Amos 'n' Andy
TV show Andy Brown
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1949
Rhapsody of Negro Life
Movie Spencer Jordan
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1947
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
Movie Old Hager
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1947
Juke Joint
Movie Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
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1946
Jivin' in Bebop
Movie Director
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1946
Girl in Room 20
Movie Joe Phillips
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1946
Beale Street Mama
Movie Bad News Johnson
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1945
The Negro Sailor
Movie Frank Roberts - columnist
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1945
Harlem Hotshots
Movie Director
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1944
Go Down Death
Movie Big Jim Bottoms
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1944
Of One Blood
Movie Wesley Hill
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1943
Marching On!
Movie Writer
- 1942
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1941
The Blood of Jesus
Movie Razz Jackson
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1940
Son of Ingagi
Movie Detective Nelson
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1939
Bad Boy
Movie Terry
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1939
Harlem Rides the Range
Movie Watson
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1939
The Bronze Buckaroo
Movie Pete
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1938
Two-Gun Man from Harlem
Movie Butch Carter
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1937
Harlem on the Prairie
Movie Doc Clayburn
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1931
Hot Biskits
Movie
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1930
Georgia Rose
Movie Ezra
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1929
Brown Gravy
Movie
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1929
The Lady Fare
Movie
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1929
The Widow's Bite
Movie
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1929
The Framing of the Shrew
Movie Lawyer Evans Chew
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1929
Melancholy Dame
Movie Webster Dill
