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Andrew S. Bishop

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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

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References

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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.
  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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