Dick Anthony Williams

Born: 1934-08-09

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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Edward Scissorhands

as Officer Allen
Released: 1990-12-07

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

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Blood and Bone

as Roberto
Released: 2009-02-07

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill...

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X-Men: The Mutant Watch

as Sen. Frank Radler
Released: 2000-07-02

While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn...

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Dog Day Afternoon

as Limo Driver
Released: 1975-09-21

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile....

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Gardens of Stone

as Slasher Williams
Released: 1987-05-05

A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam....

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The Players Club

as Mr. Armstrong
Released: 1998-04-08

Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When...

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The Rapture

as Henry
Released: 1991-10-04

A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith...

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The Anderson Tapes

as Spencer
Released: 1971-06-17

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her...

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Mo' Better Blues

as Big Stop Williams
Released: 1990-08-03

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness...

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The Deep

as Slake
Released: 1977-06-17

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they...

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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

as Malthus
Released: 1971-12-11

A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired...

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The Jerk

as Taj
Released: 1979-12-14

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin...

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Summer Rental

as Dan Gardner
Released: 1985-08-09

Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach....

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The Star Chamber

as Detective Paul Mackey
Released: 1983-08-05

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young...

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Brave New World

as Helmholz Watson
Released: 1980-03-07

A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to...

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Tap

as Francis
Released: 1989-02-12

Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to...

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Cast the First Stone

as Jackson Phillips
Released: 1989-11-13

After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious...

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The Lost Man

as Ronald
Released: 1969-07-11

A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."

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Grizzly II: Revenge

as Charlie
Released: 2020-02-17

All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers,...

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Some Kind of Miracle

as Dr. Hopstone
Released: 1979-01-03

The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance,...

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This Is Kate Bennett...

as Leonard Hayes
Released: 1982-05-28

In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter...

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The Mack

as Pretty Tony
Released: 1973-04-04

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble...

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Hot Boyz

as Harold
Released: 2000-01-15

Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in...

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A Gun in the House

as Det. Frank Campbell
Released: 1981-02-11

A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home...

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Uptight

as Corbin
Released: 1968-12-28

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by...

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Night Partners

as Instructor
Released: 1983-10-11

Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by...

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Deadly Hero

as District Attorney Winston
Released: 1975-12-14

Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted...

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Five on the Black Hand Side

as Preston
Released: 1973-10-25

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African...

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Through Naked Eyes

as Det. Wylie
Released: 1983-12-11

A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building...

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An Almost Perfect Affair

as Jackson
Released: 1979-04-27

An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian...

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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

as uncredited
Released: 1983-03-22

This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson,...

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The Storyteller

as Anthony
Released: 1977-12-05

A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions...

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Slaughter's Big Rip Off

as Joe Creole
Released: 1973-08-31

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps...

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Something So Right

as Morris Elliot
Released: 1982-11-30

Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and...

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Freeman

as Freeman
Released: 1977-12-31

This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for...

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The Night the City Screamed

as Jim Downs
Released: 1980-12-14

A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.

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Hollow Image

as Danny
Released: 1979-06-24

A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new...

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Percy & Thunder

as Caswell Baker
Released: 1993-09-07

A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.

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Steam

as August
Released: 2007-11-15

Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet...

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The Meeting

as Malcolm X
Released: 1989-05-03

Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.

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Keeping On

as Samuel Taylor
Released: 1983-02-08

A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.

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Sister, Sister

as Reverend Richard Henderson
Released: 1982-06-07

Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the...

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Law & Order

as Sam Burdette
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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JAG

as Special Agent Lang
First aired: 1995-09-23

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge...

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The X-Files

as Agent Reggie Purdue
First aired: 1993-09-10

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Performer
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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The Shield

as Reverend Neal Cook
First aired: 2002-03-12

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above...

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Ironside

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Martin

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-08-27

Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his...

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Hart to Hart

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-22

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife,...

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Starsky & Hutch

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-10

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...

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L.A. Law

as Charles Jackson
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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L.A. Law

as Franklin Hovey
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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The Rockford Files

as Maceo Prentiss
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

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The Parent 'Hood

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-01-18

The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July...

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Due South

as ATF Agent MacFadden
First aired: 1994-09-22

Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the...

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Chicago Hope

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-09-18

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran...

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Cagney & Lacey

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-03-25

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...

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Lou Grant

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-20

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his...

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Archie Bunker's Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-23

Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived...

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A Woman Called Moses

as John Tubman
First aired: 1978-12-11

A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave...

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Roc

as Ray Boyd
First aired: 1991-08-25

Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994....

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The Sophisticated Gents

as Ralph Joplin
First aired: 1981-09-29

The 25-year reunion of members of a black athletic-social club brings together nine of its...

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Homefront

as uncredited
First aired: 1991-09-24

Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and...

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Stingray

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-07-14

Ray is an enigmatic adventurer with no traceable past who travels from place to place fighting...

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Nanny and the Professor

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-01-21

Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and...

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Shannon's Deal

as McGuire
First aired: 1990-04-16

Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia...

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King

as Malcolm X
First aired: 1978-02-12

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister...

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Our Family Honor

as Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
First aired: 1985-09-11

Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had...

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Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-01-27

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC...

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