Andrew S. Bishop

Andrew S. Bishop (1894–1959) was an actor on stage and screen. He and Cleo Desmond drew adoring fans to their theatrical performances.^[1] He starred in several of Oscar Michaux's African American films.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He was part of the Anita Bush stock company.^[5]

Bishop is one of the actors pictured on a lobby card for the 1935 film Temptation held by the National Museum of African American History and Culture.^[6]

Filmography edit

A Son of Satan (working title The Ghost of Tolston's Manor)^[7] (1924) as Ghost
The House Behind the Cedars (1927) as George Tryon
Murder in Harlem (1935) as Anthony Brisbane
Temptation^[8] as Kid Cotton

References edit

^ Hill, Errol; Hatch, James V. (July 17, 2003). A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521624435 – via Google Books.
^ Musser, Charles; Gaines, Jane Marie; Bowser, Pearl (March 28, 2016). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253021557 – via Google Books.
^ Sampson, Henry T. (January 1, 1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810826052 – via Google Books.
^ Robinson, Cedric J. (September 1, 2012). Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469606750 – via Google Books.
^ Kahana, Jonathan (January 21, 2016). The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190459321 – via Google Books.
^ "Lobby Card for Temptation". National Museum of African American History and Culture.
^ "A Son of Satan (The Ghost of Tolstons Manor) (1924)". The Pittsburgh Courier. April 7, 1923. p. 12 – via newspapers.com.
^ Inc, The Crisis Publishing Company (April 1, 1979). "The Crisis". The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. – via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

External links edit

Andrew S. Bishop at IMDb

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[1] Hill, Errol; Hatch, James V. (July 17, 2003). A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521624435 – via Google Books.

[2] Musser, Charles; Gaines, Jane Marie; Bowser, Pearl (March 28, 2016). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253021557 – via Google Books.

[3] Sampson, Henry T. (January 1, 1995). Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810826052 – via Google Books.

[4] Robinson, Cedric J. (September 1, 2012). Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469606750 – via Google Books.

[5] Kahana, Jonathan (January 21, 2016). The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190459321 – via Google Books.

[aah-6] "Lobby Card for Temptation". National Museum of African American History and Culture.

[7] "A Son of Satan (The Ghost of Tolstons Manor) (1924)". The Pittsburgh Courier. April 7, 1923. p. 12 – via newspapers.com.

[8] Inc, The Crisis Publishing Company (April 1, 1979). "The Crisis". The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. – via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

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