Tim (Harry Roscoe) Moore (born today in 1887) is best known to posterity) for playing the Kingfish in the television version of Amos and Andy (1951-53). (The characters had been played by white actors on radio, but blackface wouldn’t fly in the 1950s, so African Americans were hired when the popular show moved to tv). [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:28AM on December 9, 2011