Billy Dee Williams
Acting
- Born:
- 1937-04-06
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
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LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
Icons Unearthed: Batman
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation
In Search of Tomorrow
And Just Like That…
Stallone: Frank, That Is
LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
The Skywalker Legacy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Quincy
Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That?
Batman Is Just Not That Into You
Dirty Dancing
The Lego Batman Movie
I Am Not Your Negro
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises
The Man in 3B
LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
Star Wars Rebels
The Lego Movie
The Rebels
LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
Comic Book Men
Key & Peele
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
Barry Munday
3 Ways to Get a Husband
White Collar
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Titan Maximum
Modern Family
Glee
Pitching Man: Satchel Paige Defying Time
Fanboys
Diary of a Single Mom
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
iMurders
Private Practice
General Hospital: Night Shift
Constellation
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Giraffes Can't Dance
Merry F#%$in' Christmas
The Boondocks
Mind of Mencia
Dancing with the Stars
Bring Back...
Robot Chicken
Black in the 80s
Lost
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
When Star Wars Ruled the World
The Maintenance Man
Epoch: Evolution
NCIS
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Half & Half
Street Time
Undercover Brother
It's Black Entertainment
The Last Place on Earth
Scrubs
The Visit
Good Neighbor
The Ladies Man
Fear Runs Silent
18 Wheels of Justice
The Contract
Hard Time
The Hughleys
That '70s Show
Woo
The Fourth King
Steel Sharks
The View
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
Afro Promo
The Prince
Moving Target
Mask of Death
Triplecross
Falling For You
Lonesome Dove: The Series
Message from Nam
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Percy & Thunder
Alien Intruder
Marked for Murder
The Jacksons: An American Dream
Giant Steps
Martin
Driving Me Crazy
Voices That Care
In Living Color
Dangerous Passion
Secret Agent 00 Soul
Batman
The Return of Desperado
Deadly Illusion
A Different World
Wiseguy
Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm and Blues
Number One with a Bullet
Courage
Oceans of Fire
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
The Right of the People
North and South
Double Dare
Night of 100 Stars II
Marvin & Tige
The Impostor
Fear City
Time Bomb
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi
Chiefs
Shooting Stars
Return of the Jedi
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
Late Night with David Letterman
Nighthawks
Dynasty
Children of Divorce
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
The Hostage Tower
The Empire Strikes Back
Christmas Lilies of the Field
Scott Joplin
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Mahogany
Carter's Army
The Jeffersons
Dinah!
The Take
The Conversation
Hit!
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Lady Sings the Blues
The Final Comedown
The Glass House
Brian's Song
Lost Flight
The Out-of-Towners
The New People
The Mod Squad
Coronet Blue
Mission: Impossible
The F.B.I.
The Mike Douglas Show
The Defenders
The Last Angry Man
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Brown Sugar
Dark Empire
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
Star Wars Detours