Billy Dee Williams
Acting
Born 1937-04-06
New York City, New York, USA
170 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 1 won
- 1984 Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Won
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William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, and singer. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s, and nearly forty years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history.
He made his film debut in 1959 in The Last Angry Man starring Paul Muni, in which he portrayed a juvenile delinquent. His first big break was in the acclaimed television movie, Brian's Song in which he played Gale Sayers. In 1972 he played Billie Holliday's husband Louis McKay in Motown Productions' Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues. Diana Ross starred in Lady Sings the Blues opposite Williams; Motown paired the two of them again three years later in Mahogany.
His work has earned him numerous awards and honors including three NAACP Image Awards, and the NAACP Lifetime Achievement award. He was inducted into the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame in 1984, and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.
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Acting
56 credits
NCIS
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Modern Family
Lost
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The View
Dancing with the Stars
The Mike Douglas Show
Glee
White Collar
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Scrubs
Robot Chicken
Mission: Impossible
Dynasty
That '70s Show
Tony Awards
Private Practice
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Star Wars Rebels
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Boondocks
Martin
The Empire Strikes Back
Late Night with David Letterman
The Defenders
The F.B.I.
A Different World
Key & Peele
And Just Like That…
Return of the Jedi
The Lego Movie
The Oscars
North and South
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Batman
Dinah!
The Hughleys
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
The Lego Batman Movie
Half & Half
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
Street Time
The Jacksons: An American Dream
Comic Book Men
The Conversation
LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
18 Wheels of Justice
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Titan Maximum
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past
Dirty Dancing
LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales
Nighthawks
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