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

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

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

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)