Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
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William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades.
Billy Dee Williams. Actor: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams on April 6, 1937 in New York City. Billy Dee has notched up an impressive array of film and television appearances over the past 50+ years.
He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
This is the filmography for American actor Billy Dee Williams. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades. He is most known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Mahogany (1975), Scott Joplin ...
Williams reflects on his roles in “Brian’s Song,” “Lady Sings the Blues,” and shares how his “Star Wars” role inspired the title of his new book, “What Have We Here?”.
Known to legions of Star Wars fans as Lando Calrissian, the debonair actor Billy Dee Williams has spent almost 80 years on screen and on stage. But there’s more to the man than the famous blue cape.
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.
