Spencer Williams
Birthday: 1893-07-14
Place of Birth: Vidalia, Louisiana, USA
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.
Movies
The Blood of Jesus
Razz accidentally shoots his wife Martha when his hunting rifle drops on the floor and discharges. T...
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Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headli...
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Go Down Death
The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but h...
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Juke Joint
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his...
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Girl in Room 20
Daisy Mae Walker is an aspiring singer from a small town in Texas, who comes to a Big City to pursue...
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Two-Gun Man from Harlem
A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a ...
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Bad Boy
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a...
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The Framing of the Shrew
Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventua...
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Harlem on the Prairie
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with addit...
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Melancholy Dame
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired....
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The Bronze Buckaroo
Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns fro...
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it....
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The Lady Fare
"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any ...
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Son of Ingagi
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's fath...
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Hot Biskits
Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy shor...
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Of One Blood
After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police office...
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Beale Street Mama
The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel ...
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...
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The Negro Sailor
US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper t...
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Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus
An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-centu...
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