Tim Moore was an American vaudevillian and comic actor of the first half of the 20th century. He gained his greatest recognition in the starring role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the CBS TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show. He proudly stated, "I've made it a point never to tell a joke on stage that I couldn't tell in front of my mother."
Tim Moore as "Kingfish" on CBS TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show
Early photo of Tim Moore.
Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden) and Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), as well as incidental characters. On television, 1951–1953, black actors took over the majority of the roles; white characters were infrequent.
An 1935 advertisement for the entertainment duo Amos 'n' Andy.
Freeman Gosden ('Amos') and Charles Correll ('Andy') in 1929.
Gosden and Correll celebrate the tenth anniversary of the show on NBC in March 1938.
Publicity photo of the pair while at CBS, circa January 1942