Actor profile
Billy Dee Williams
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.
102 Movies
67 TV Shows
174 Credits
Filmography
Movies & TV Shows
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
28th May 2012 as Sensei Carrot / Cucumber Referee (voice)
General Hospital: Night Shift
12th July 2007
Mind of Mencia
6th July 2005
Black in the 80s
1st February 2005
Lonesome Dove: The Series
9th September 1994
In Living Color
15th April 1990
Wiseguy
16th September 1987
The Jeffersons
18th January 1975
The New People
22nd September 1969
The Mod Squad
24th September 1968
