Clarence Williams III
Gender: Male
Born: 21st August 1939 (currently 72 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Mod Squad, Mystery Woman, The Love Bug
Movies: The Immortals, The Love Bug, Half Baked, Tales from the Hood, Purple Rain, Sugar Hill, Ritual, Mystery Woman: Snapshot, Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend, Ali: An American Hero, Blue Hill Avenue, The Cool World, Life, Against the Wall, Hoodlum, American Gangster, Impostor, The General's Daughter, The Way of War, Mindstorm, Malicious Intent, George Wallace, Starstruck, The Legend of 1900, 52 Pick-Up, Happy Here and Now, Deep Cover, Reindeer Games, The Blue Hour, Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
Clarence Williams III (born August 21, 1939) is an American actor.
Williams was born in New York City. His grandfather was Clarence Williams, the jazz pianist and composer. He was raised by his grandmother.
His first major acting role was as Lincoln B. Hayes on Aaron Spelling's TV series The Mod Squad. He has guest-starred in television shows such as Hill Street Blues, the Canadian cult classic The Littlest Hobo, Miami Vice, The Highwayman, Twin Peaks, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Burn Notice, Everybody Hates Chris, and in a recurring role as Philby Cross in the Mystery Woman movie series on the Hallmark Channel. He has appeared in feature films such as Life, Sugar Hill, The Cool World, Deep Cover, Tales from the Hood, Half-Baked, Hoodlum, Frogs for Snakes, Starstruck, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, The General's Daughter, The Legend of 1900, and Purple Rain. He also played a supportive role as George Wallace's fictional African-American butler and caretaker in the 1997 TNT TV movie George Wallace.
He portrayed Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson in American Gangster in 2007. Williams is not listed in the movie credits for the film.
Williams married African-American actress Gloria Foster in
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