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Lillian Randolph was an American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television. She worked in entertainment from the 1930s until shortly before her death. She appeared in hundreds of radio shows, motion pictures, short subjects, and television shows. For Disney, she contributed her voice to the character Mammy Two Shoes in four cartoons released between 1935 and 1943. Randolph was born Castello Randolph in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was the younger sister of actress Amanda Randolph
Sammy Davis, Jr. later related that Frank Sinatra organized the effort to pay Tim Moore's funeral expenses. Moore's grave remained unmarked from the time of his burial until 1983; fellow comedians Redd Foxx and George Kirby raised funds for a headstone. There is now one marking the graves of Moore and his wife, Vivian, who died in 1988.
John Dotson Lee Jr. (July 4, 1898 – December 12, 1965) was an American singer, dancer and actor known for voicing the role of Br'er Rabbit in Disney's Song of the South (1946) and as the clownish, cringing, tremulous-voiced shyster pseudo-lawyer Algonquin J. Calhoun in the CBS Amos 'n' Andy TV and radio comedy series in the early 1950s. His comedic portrayal of Calhoun was a highlight of a brilliant ensemble cast whose storylines remain eternally funny. Much of his career was spent in ...
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Moore's current projects include articles on music, meter and dance in ancient theatre, an online database of the meters of Greek and Roman drama, and a long-range project on musical theatre in ancient Greece and Rome. He also has interests in the history of theatre, especially American musical theatre and Japanese Kyogen comedy. Awards
Dec 24, 2017 · Every year I watch "It’s a Wonderful Life" on television and every year actress Lillian Randolph is such a standout. Sharp, witty, memorable, she had a pretty successful career, especially as a ...
In 1950, Moore was recommended by his old vaudeville friend, Flournoy Miller, for the role of George "Kingfish" Stevens, a role which was voiced on radio by white actor Freeman Gosden. The origin of the television show was actually a radio show that began in 1928 as a series about African Americans in Harlem, created, written and starred in by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, a pair of white pe
