Bourbon Street Beat
1959
star 6.0
"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the A...
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Acting
Spencer Williams
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
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Amos 'n' Andy
1951
star 7.6
A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
Harlem Rides the Range
1939
star 3.9
A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audie...
Of One Blood
1944
star 5.5
After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a law...
Bad Boy
1939
star 4.2
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a...
Two-Gun Man from Harlem
1938
star 4.8
A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-tu...
Juke Joint
1947
star 6.5
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sideki...
The Bronze Buckaroo
1939
star 5.0
Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jac...
Girl in Room 20
1946
star 7.0
Daisy Mae Walker is an aspiring singer from a small town in Texas, who comes to a Big City to pursue a show bus...
The Blood of Jesus
1941
star 5.0
Razz accidentally shoots his wife Martha when his hunting rifle drops on the floor and discharges. The church c...
The Lady Fare
1929
star 8.0
"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-...
Harlem on the Prairie
1937
star 7.5
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional fundin...
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
1947
star 4.8
A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a re...
Go Down Death
1944
star 3.2
The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme b...
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
star 7.0
The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.
Melancholy Dame
1929
star 6.0
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
Beale Street Mama
1946
star 9.0
The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. H...
Son of Ingagi
1940
star 4.2
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.
The Negro Sailor
1945
star 7.0
US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper through boot...
Georgia Rose
1930
star 7.0
Musical film with an all-black cast.
Rhapsody of Negro Life
1949
Film by Spencer Williams.
The Framing of the Shrew
1929
star 7.0
Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets th...
The Widow's Bite
1929
Spencer Williams' comedy feature.
Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus
1942
star 9.0
An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian...
Brown Gravy
1929
star 9.0
A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.
Hot Biskits
1931
star 5.0
Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which...