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

Bourbon Street Beat
1959
Amos 'n' Andy
1951
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
Georgia Rose
1930
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Harlem on the Prairie
1937
Two-Gun Man from Harlem
1938
The Framing of the Shrew
1929
Juke Joint
1947
Harlem Rides the Range
1939
Hot Biskits
1931
Jivin' in Bebop
1946

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
27
Directing
13
Writing
10
Producing
1
1983
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
as Self
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1959
Bourbon Street Beat
1951
Amos 'n' Andy
as Andy Brown
1949
Rhapsody of Negro Life
as Spencer Jordan
1947
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
as Old Hager
1947
Juke Joint
as Bad News Johnson / Vanderbilt Whitney
1946
Girl in Room 20
as Joe Phillips
1946
Beale Street Mama
as Bad News Johnson
1945
The Negro Sailor
as Frank Roberts - columnist
1944
Go Down Death
as Big Jim Bottoms
1944
Of One Blood
as Wesley Hill
1942
Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus
1941
The Blood of Jesus
as Razz Jackson
1940
Son of Ingagi
as Detective Nelson
1939
Harlem Rides the Range
as Watson
1939
Bad Boy
as Terry
1939
The Bronze Buckaroo
as Pete
1938
Two-Gun Man from Harlem
as Butch Carter
1937
Harlem on the Prairie
as Doc Clayburn
1931
Hot Biskits
1930
Georgia Rose
as Ezra
1929
The Framing of the Shrew
as Lawyer Evans Chew
1929
Melancholy Dame
as Webster Dill
1929
The Lady Fare
1929
The Widow's Bite
1929
Brown Gravy