Spencer Williams
Acting • Born 1893-07-14 – Died 1969-12-13
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
27 credits
The Blood of Jesus
Movie • 1941
Razz Jackson
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
Movie • 1946
Old Hager
Go Down Death
Movie • 1944
Big Jim Bottoms
Harlem Rides the Range
Movie • 1939
Watson
Juke Joint
Movie • 1947
Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
Girl in Room 20
Movie • 1946
Joe Phillips
Two-Gun Man from Harlem
Movie • 1938
Butch Carter
Bad Boy
Movie • 1939
Terry
Rhapsody of Negro Life
Movie • 1949
Spencer Jordan
The Framing of the Shrew
Movie • 1929
Lawyer Evans Chew
Harlem on the Prairie
Movie • 1937
Doc Clayburn
Melancholy Dame
Movie • 1929
Webster Dill
The Bronze Buckaroo
Movie • 1939
Pete
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Movie • 1983
Self
The Lady Fare
Movie • 1929
The Widow's Bite
Movie • 1929
Brown Gravy
Movie • 1929
Son of Ingagi
Movie • 1940
Detective Nelson
Hot Biskits
Movie • 1931
Of One Blood
Movie • 1944
Wesley Hill
Beale Street Mama
Movie • 1946
Bad News Johnson
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
The Negro Sailor
Movie • 1945
Frank Roberts - columnist
Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus
Movie • 1942
Georgia Rose
Movie • 1930
Ezra
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
Amos 'n' Andy
TV • 1951
Andrew H. "Andy" Brown