Dick Anthony Williams
- Acting
- August 9, 1934 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- February 16, 2012
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Grizzly II: Revenge · Charlie
- Blood and Bone · Roberto
- Steam · August
- Black Listed · Missouri
- Mackin’ Ain’t Easy · Self
- The Shield · Reverend Neal Cook
- X-Men: The Mutant Watch · Sen. Frank Radler
- Hot Boyz · Harold
- The Players Club · Mr. Armstrong
- JAG · Special Agent Lang
- The Parent 'Hood
- Due South · ATF Agent MacFadden
- Chicago Hope · Charles Wilkes
- The X-Files · Agent Reggie Purdue
- Percy & Thunder · Caswell Baker
- The Gifted · Daniel
- Martin · Dick Anthony Williams
- The Larry Sanders Show · Beverly's Father
- The Rapture · Henry
- Homefront
- Roc · Ray Boyd
- Edward Scissorhands · Officer Allen
- Law & Order · Sam Burdette
- Mo' Better Blues · Big Stop Williams
- Shannon's Deal · McGuire
- Cast the First Stone · Jackson Phillips
- Snoops · Andrew Devilar
- The Meeting · Malcolm X
- Tap · Francis
- Gardens of Stone · Slasher Williams
- Heart of the City · Ed Van Duzer
- L.A. Law · Charles Jackson, Franklin Hovey
- Our Family Honor · Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
- Summer Rental · Dan Gardner
- Stingray
- Challenge of a Lifetime · Dr. Hume
- Through Naked Eyes · Det. Wylie
- Night Partners · Instructor
- The Star Chamber · Detective Paul Mackey
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
- Keeping On · Samuel Taylor
- Something So Right · Morris Elliot
- Sister, Sister · Rev. Richard Henderson
- This Is Kate Bennett... · Leonard Hayes
- Cagney & Lacey · Sly
- American Playhouse · Samuel Traylor, Professor Carter
- The Sophisticated Gents · Ralph Joplin
- A Gun in the House · Det. Frank Campbell
- The Night the City Screamed · Jim Downs
- Brave New World · Helmholz Watson
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
- One in a Million
- The Jerk · Taj
- Archie Bunker's Place
- Hart to Hart
- Hollow Image · Danny
- An Almost Perfect Affair · Jackson
- Some Kind of Miracle · Dr. Hopstone
- A Woman Called Moses · John Tubman
- King · Malcolm X
- Sparrow · Martin
- Freeman · Freeman
- The Storyteller · Anthony
- Lou Grant
- The Deep · Slake
- The Richard Pryor Special? · Writer
- The Long Night · Paul
- Deadly Hero · District Attorney Winston
- Dog Day Afternoon · Limo Driver
- Starsky & Hutch
- The Rockford Files · Maceo Prentiss
- Five on the Black Hand Side · Preston
- Slaughter's Big Rip-Off · Joe Creole
- The Mack · Pretty Tony
- Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? · Malthus
- The Anderson Tapes · Spencer
- Nanny and the Professor
- The Lost Man · Ronald
- Uptight · Corbin
- Ironside