Credits include: Song of the South, Carmen Jones, Hollywood Shuffle, East Side, West Side and Down to Earth

Credits include: King Kong, Dead Reckoning, Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, The Clock and Cabin in the Sky

Credits include: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, The Jeffersons, The Pack, C.C. and Company and Kingfish's Secretary

The brother of Hattie McDaniel and Etta McDaniel. Appeared in over 200 films. Sam was the only black actor to appear on the predominately white American television show "I Love Lucy." However, like most black actors at the time, he played a porter.

Credits include: I Shot Jesse James, Hi-De-Ho, My Son, the Hero, Hooray for Love and Kingfish's Secretary

Credits include: The Spirit of St. Louis, The Rat Race, My Forbidden Past, High Time and The First Traveling Saleslady

Credits include: The Amos 'n Andy Show, Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy, The Turkey Dinner, The Darktown Revue and The Uranium Mine

Credits include: The Day of the Locust, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, The Main Event, Anna Lucasta and High Time

Credits include: Three Violent People, High Time, The Amos 'n Andy Show, The Guns of Fort Petticoat and Bernardine

American actor, writer, director, and producer whose early pioneering work in African-American or "race" films was eclipsed in fame by his role as one of the title characters in the equally pioneering and also controversial 1950s sitcom The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951).