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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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01 May 1938
A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him.
23 November 1929
A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.
28 September 1929
"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious flirtations with her.
01 February 1939
A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.
19 April 1975
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
26 April 1941
Razz accidentally shoots his wife Martha when his hunting rifle drops on the floor and discharges. The church congregation gathers at Martha’s bedside to pray for her recovery, and during this period an angel arrives to take Martha’s spirit from her body, but she is tempted by the slick Judas Green, who is an agent for Satan.
10 July 1939
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects.
01 January 1947
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them.
27 April 1929
Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to eat anything she cooks him.
01 January 1943
During World War II, a young African American is forced to continue his family’s tradition of military service when he is drafted into the United States Army.
02 January 1946
A filmed variety show featuring the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra with special guests.
02 February 1929
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
01 January 1944
The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes.
01 January 1939
Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jackson that her brother, Joe, is missing.
31 December 1942
An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian who was elevated to sainthood in 1962 by Pope John XXIII.
01 January 1983
The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.
01 January 1946
The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money.
31 December 1931
Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is played out in a high-stakes game of mini golf.
09 December 1937
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
20 April 1947
A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel.
01 January 1946
Daisy Mae Walker is an aspiring singer from a small town in Texas, who comes to a Big City to pursue a show business career.
01 December 1940
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.
13 December 1945
US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper through boot camp and an assignment in the Pacific.
01 January 1944
After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.
