Actor
· Acting
Dick Anthony Williams
Born 1934-08-09
Died 2012-02-16
📍 Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography 76
Grizzly II: Revenge
as Charlie
2020
Blood and Bone
as Roberto
2009
Steam
as August
2007
Black Listed
as Missouri
2003
The Shield
as Reverend Neal Cook
2002
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
as Sen. Frank Radler
2000
Hot Boyz
as Harold
2000
The Players Club
as Mr. Armstrong
1998
JAG
as Special Agent Lang
1995
The Parent 'Hood
1995
Due South
as ATF Agent MacFadden
1994
Chicago Hope
as Charles Wilkes
1994
The X-Files
as Agent Reggie Purdue
1993
Percy & Thunder
as Caswell Baker
1993
Martin
as Dick Anthony Williams
1992
The Larry Sanders Show
as Beverly's Father
1992
The Rapture
as Henry
1991
Homefront
1991
Roc
as Ray Boyd
1991
Edward Scissorhands
as Officer Allen
1990
Law & Order
as Sam Burdette
1990
Mo' Better Blues
as Big Stop Williams
1990
Shannon's Deal
as McGuire
1990
Cast the First Stone
as Jackson Phillips
1989
Snoops
as Andrew Devilar
1989
The Meeting
as Malcolm X
1989
Tap
as Francis
1989
Gardens of Stone
as Slasher Williams
1987
Heart of the City
as Ed Van Duzer
1986
L.A. Law
as Charles Jackson
1986
L.A. Law
as Franklin Hovey
1986
Our Family Honor
as Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
1985
Summer Rental
as Dan Gardner
1985
Stingray
1985
Through Naked Eyes
as Det. Wylie
1983
Night Partners
as Instructor
1983
The Star Chamber
as Detective Paul Mackey
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
Keeping On
as Samuel Taylor
1983
Something So Right
as Morris Elliot
1982
Sister, Sister
as Rev. Richard Henderson
1982
This Is Kate Bennett...
as Leonard Hayes
1982
Cagney & Lacey
as Sly
1982
The Sophisticated Gents
as Ralph Joplin
1981
A Gun in the House
as Det. Frank Campbell
1981
The Night the City Screamed
as Jim Downs
1980
Brave New World
as Helmholz Watson
1980
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
One in a Million
1980
The Jerk
as Taj
1979
Archie Bunker's Place
1979
Hart to Hart
1979
Hollow Image
as Danny
1979
An Almost Perfect Affair
as Jackson
1979
Some Kind of Miracle
as Dr. Hopstone
1979
A Woman Called Moses
as John Tubman
1978
King
as Malcolm X
1978
Freeman
as Freeman
1977
The Storyteller
as Anthony
1977
Lou Grant
1977
The Deep
as Slake
1977
The Richard Pryor Special?
as Writer
1977
Deadly Hero
as District Attorney Winston
1975
Dog Day Afternoon
as Limo Driver
1975
Starsky & Hutch
1975
The Rockford Files
as Maceo Prentiss
1974
Five on the Black Hand Side
as Preston
1973
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
as Joe Creole
1973
The Mack
as Pretty Tony
1973
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
as Malthus
1971
The Anderson Tapes
as Spencer
1971
Nanny and the Professor
1970
The Lost Man
as Ronald
1969
Uptight
as Corbin
1968
Ironside
1967
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956