Billy Dee Williams
Gender: Male
Born: 6th April 1937 (currently 75 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Martin, Dynasty, General Hospital: Night Shift, 18 Wheels of Justice, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Brown Sugar, Guiding Light, Black in the 80s, Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi, The Cleveland Show, White Collar
Movies: Batman, Carter’s Army, Hit!, Lady Sings the Blues, Nighthawks, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, The Visit, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Mahogany, Brian's Song, Constellation, The Final Comedown, Alien Intruder, The Ladies Man, Undercover Brother, The Last Angry Man, Hood of Horror, Fanboys, Fear City, The Maintenance Man, Steel Sharks, Dangerous Passion, Glass House, Moving Target, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Terror in the Aisles, Epoch: Evolution, The Out-of-Towners, Mask of Death, The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll, Hard Time, Courage, Oceans of Fire, IMurders, Three Ways to Get a Husband, Triplecross, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly... and More Sing Along Favorites, Woo, The Last Place On Earth, Barry Munday, Driving Me Crazy, Number One with a Bullet, Deadly Illusion, Good Neighbor, Scott Joplin, Chiefs, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
William December "Billy Dee" Williams, Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer.
Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta Anne, a West Indian-born elevator operator from Montserrat, and William December Williams, Sr., an African-American caretaker from Texas. He has a twin sister, Loretta, and grew up in Harlem, where he was raised by his maternal grandmother while his parents worked at several jobs. Williams graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art in Manhattan, where he was a classmate of Diahann Carroll, who coincidentally played the wife of his character Brady Lloyd on the 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty.
He first appeared on Broadway in 1945 in The Firebrand of Florence. He returned to Broadway as an adult in 1960 in the play version of The Cool Word. He appeared in A Taste of Honey in 1961. A 1976 Broadway production, I Have a Dream, was directed by Robert Greenwald and starred Williams as Martin Luther King, Jr. His most recent Broadway appearance was in August Wilson's Fences, as a replacement for James Earl Jones in the role of Troy Maxson in 1988.
He made his film debut in 1959 in the
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