Dick Anthony Williams
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.
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Acting History
2020
Grizzly II: Revenge as Charlie
2009Blood and Bone as Roberto
2007Steam as August
2002Mackin’ Ain’t Easy as Self
2002The Shield as Reverend Neal Cook
2000X-Men: The Mutant Watch as Sen. Frank Radler
2000Hot Boyz as Harold
1998The Players Club as Mr. Armstrong
1995JAG as Special Agent Lang
1995The Parent 'Hood
1994Due South as ATF Agent MacFadden
1994Chicago Hope as Charles Wilkes
1993The X-Files as Agent Reggie Purdue
1993Percy & Thunder as Caswell Baker
1993The Gifted as Daniel
1992Martin as Dick Anthony Williams
1991The Rapture as Henry
1991Homefront
1991Roc as Ray Boyd
1990Edward Scissorhands as Officer Allen
1990Law & Order as Sam Burdette
1990Mo' Better Blues as Big Stop Williams
1990Shannon's Deal as McGuire
1989Cast the First Stone as Jackson Phillips
1989Snoops as Andrew Devilar
1989The Meeting as Malcolm X
1989Tap as Francis
1987Gardens of Stone as Slasher Williams
1986Heart of the City as Ed Van Duzer
1986L.A. Law as Charles Jackson
1986L.A. Law as Franklin Hovey
1985Our Family Honor as Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
1985Summer Rental as Dan Gardner
1985Stingray
1985Challenge of a Lifetime as Dr. Hume
1983Through Naked Eyes as Det. Wylie
1983Night Partners as Instructor
1983The Star Chamber as Detective Paul Mackey
1983For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983Keeping On as Samuel Taylor
1982Something So Right as Morris Elliot
1982Sister, Sister as Rev. Richard Henderson
1982This Is Kate Bennett... as Leonard Hayes
1982Cagney & Lacey as Sly
1981The Sophisticated Gents as Ralph Joplin
1981A Gun in the House as Det. Frank Campbell
1980The Night the City Screamed as Jim Downs
1980Brave New World as Helmholz Watson
1980Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980One in a Million
1979The Jerk as Taj
1979Archie Bunker's Place
1979Hart to Hart
1979Hollow Image as Danny
1979An Almost Perfect Affair as Jackson
1979Some Kind of Miracle as Dr. Hopstone
1978A Woman Called Moses as John Tubman
1978King as Malcolm X
1977Freeman as Freeman
1977The Storyteller as Anthony
1977Lou Grant
1977The Deep as Slake
1977The Richard Pryor Special? as Writer
1976The Long Night as Paul
1975Deadly Hero as District Attorney Winston
1975Dog Day Afternoon as Limo Driver
1975Starsky & Hutch
1974The Rockford Files as Maceo Prentiss
1973Five on the Black Hand Side as Preston
1973Slaughter's Big Rip-Off as Joe Creole
1973The Mack as Pretty Tony
1971Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? as Malthus
1971The Anderson Tapes as Spencer
1970Nanny and the Professor
1969The Lost Man as Ronald
1968Uptight as Corbin
1967Ironside
1956Tony Awards as Self - Performer