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2. Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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   Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...

3. Check and Double Check - Wikipedia

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   Gosden and Correll made one more motion-picture appearance (as guest stars in The Big Broadcast of 1936), but there were no further attempts at live-action portrayals of Amos 'n' Andy until the Amos 'n' Andy television show (1951–1953), although the radio show continued to be a top-rated program throughout the 1930s and 1940s. [1] [3]

4. Spencer Williams Jr. - Wikipedia

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   [25] [30] When Williams accepted the role of Andy, he returned to a familiar location; the CBS studios were built on the former site of the Christie Studios. [10] Until Amos 'n' Andy, Williams had never worked in television. [31] Amos 'n Andy was the first U.S. television program with an all-black cast, running for 78 episodes on CBS from 1951 ...

5. Amos & Andrew - Wikipedia

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   Amos & Andrew is a 1993 American buddy action-comedy film directed and written by E. Max Frye and starring Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson.The film's title parodies that of the sitcom Amos 'n' Andy, while the premise is akin to that of The Defiant Ones.

6. Johnny Lee (actor) - Wikipedia

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   John Dotson Lee Jr. (July 4, 1898 - December 12, 1965) was an American singer, dancer and actor known for voicing the role of Br'er Rabbit in Disney's Song of the South (1946) [1] and as Algonquin J. Calhoun in the CBS TV and radio comedy series Amos 'n' Andy [2] in the early 1950s.

7. The Lion Tamer - Wikipedia

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   While Andy is looking elsewhere, the real lion changes places with the fake lion (which promptly runs off into the distance). Andy starts flicking his whip again while Amos who is outside the cage tries to warn him that he now faces the real lion. The lion gets upset and Andy then decides to put his head inside the lion's mouth.

8. The Rasslin' Match - Wikipedia

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   The Rasslin' Match is a 1934 animated short film based off of the popular Amos 'n' Andy radio series. It was produced by the Van Beuren Studios and directed by Vernon Stallings and starring Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden as the voices of their popular radio characters, Amos and Andy.

9. Tim Moore (comedian) - Wikipedia

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   Tim Moore (December 9, 1887 – December 13, 1958) was an American vaudevillian and comic actor of the first half of the 20th century. He gained his greatest recognition in the starring role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the CBS TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show.