On This Day In Comedy . . . In 1893 Spencer Williams Was Born!
Spencer Williams was born in Vidalia, Louisiana. He lived his teen-age years in New York, working as a call boy for Oscar Hammerstein and while being mentored as a comedian by Bert Williams. By 1923 Spencer Williams was in Hollywood getting bits parts in films like Buster Keaton’s comedy classic, Steamboat Bill, Jr. In 1929, […]
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