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Billy Dee Williams
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William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, and singer. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in…
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William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, and singer. 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. He made his film debut in 1959 in The Last Angry Man starring Paul Muni, in which he portrayed a juvenile delinquent. His first big break was in the acclaimed television movie, Brian's Song in which he played Gale Sayers. In 1972 he played Billie Holliday's husband Louis McKay in Motown Productions' Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues. Diana Ross starred in Lady Sings the Blues opposite Williams; Motown paired the two of them again three years later in Mahogany. His work has earned him numerous awards and honors including three NAACP Image Awards, and the NAACP Lifetime Achievement award. He was inducted into the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame in 1984, and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.
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2025
STZ
Movie Broadcaster (voice)
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2025
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past
TV show Landolorian (voice)
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2024
LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy
TV show Landolorian (voice)
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2024
Icons Unearthed: Batman
TV show Self
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2023
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
Movie Himself
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2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Movie Self
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2022
LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation
Movie Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2022
In Search of Tomorrow
Movie Self
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2021
And Just Like That…
TV show Lawrence Todd
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2021
Stallone: Frank, That Is
Movie Self
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2020
LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Movie Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2020
The Skywalker Legacy
Movie Self
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2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Movie Lando Calrissian
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2019
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits
Movie Self
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
TV show Billy Dee Williams (voice)
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2018
Quincy
Movie Self
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2017
Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That?
Movie Two-Face (voice)
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2017
Batman Is Just Not That Into You
Movie Two-Face (voice)
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2017
Dirty Dancing
Movie Tito
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2017
The Lego Batman Movie
Movie Two-Face (voice)
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2017
I Am Not Your Negro
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
TV show Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2016
LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises
TV show Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2015
The Man in 3B
Movie Cain
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2015
LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales
TV show Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
Movie Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2014
Star Wars Rebels
TV show Lando Calrissian (voice)
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2014
The Lego Movie
Movie Lando (voice)
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2014
The Rebels
TV show Coach Paysinger
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2013
LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles
TV show Lindo Calrissian (voice)
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2012
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
TV show Sensei Carrot / Cucumber Referee (voice)
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2012
Comic Book Men
TV show Self
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2012
Key & Peele
TV show Billy Dee Williams
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2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Movie Ace Millstone
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2010
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
Movie Lando Calrissian / Teacher (voice)
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2010
Barry Munday
Movie Lonnie Green
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2010
3 Ways to Get a Husband
Movie William
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2009
White Collar
TV show Ford / Bradford Toman
