Spencer Bell (actor)
Year Title Role
1922 The Counter Jumper A Clerk
1923 No Wedding Bells The Butler
1923 The Gown Shop Janitor
1923 Lightning Love Butler
1924 Her Boy Friend Dock worker
1924 Kid Speed The Speed Kid 's co-driver
1925 Wizard of Oz Cowardly Lion /Rastus/Snowball
1925 Blue Blood Amos Jeenkins
1925 The Perfect Clown Snowflake
1926 The Prince of Broadway Snowball
1927 Oh , What a Man ! Waiter
1928 The Midnight Taxi Rastus
1929 The Rodeo Magnolia 's Husband
1931 Smart Money Suntan
1932 Heavens ! My Husband ! Porter
1933 Blue of the Night Porter
Selected filmography
Spencer Bell (September 25, 1887 - August 18, 1935) was an American stage and film actor, best known for playing opposite Larry Semon in many of his silent comedy shorts from the late 1910s to 1928. Bell was one of the first African American comedic actors of the silent film era, and was the first to be signed to film contract. Over the course of his fifteen year film career, Bell appeared in more than seventy comedy shorts.