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Spencer Williams Jr.
1893–1969
United States
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Spencer Williams Jr. (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He was a pioneering African American filmmaker from the late 1920s through the 1940s, directing a number of notable race films including The Blood of Jesus (1941).
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