
Dick Anthony Williams
Born August 9, 1934 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Richard Anthony Williams (August 9, 1934 – February 16, 2012) was an American actor. Williams is best known for his starring performances on Broadway in The Poison Tree, What the Wine-Sellers Buy and Black Picture Show. Williams also had notable roles in 1970s blaxploitation films such as The Mack and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Edward Scissorhands

Dog Day Afternoon

Blood and Bone

The Deep

The Jerk

Summer Rental

Mo' Better Blues

The Star Chamber

Tap

Grizzly II: Revenge

The Players Club

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

Gardens of Stone

The Rapture

The Mack

The Anderson Tapes

Uptight

Something So Right

Brave New World

Hot Boyz

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

Black Listed

The Night the City Screamed

The Richard Pryor Special?

The Lost Man

Freeman

An Almost Perfect Affair

Deadly Hero
TV Shows

Ironside

The Shield

The Larry Sanders Show

Tony Awards

L.A. Law

The Rockford Files

Hart to Hart

Starsky & Hutch

Cagney & Lacey

Martin

Due South

Lou Grant

American Playhouse

The Parent 'Hood

Archie Bunker's Place

Nanny and the Professor

Snoops

Stingray

Roc

Homefront

Heart of the City

Shannon's Deal

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

King

Our Family Honor

A Woman Called Moses

One in a Million

The Sophisticated Gents
More Movies

Steam

Five on the Black Hand Side

A Gun in the House

Night Partners

Keeping On

Mackin’ Ain’t Easy

Through Naked Eyes

Hollow Image

Cast the First Stone

Sister, Sister

Some Kind of Miracle

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

The Storyteller

Percy & Thunder

The Meeting




