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American actor
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
References
^ 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.
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