Billie dee williams biography
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Billy Dee Williams: What Have We Here?
Billy Dee Williams
What Have We Here?
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"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier. His first film role was in The Last Angry Man, the great Paul Muni's final film. It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him soaring as an actor, 'You can play a•
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Billy Dee Williams
American actor, novelist and painter (born )
William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, ) is an American actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over films and television roles over six decades. He is best known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Mahogany (), Scott Joplin (), and Nighthawks (), as Harvey Dent in Batman () and The Lego Batman Movie (), The Last Angry Man (), Carter's Army, The Out-of-Towners (), The Final Comedown and Lady Sings the Blues (both ), Hit! (), Fear City and Terror in the Aisles (both ), Alien Intruder () and The Visit ().
Raised in Harlem, Williams made his Broadway theatre debut at age seven in The Firebrand of Florence (). He later graduated from The High School of Music & Art, then won a painting scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, where he won a Hallgarten Prize for painting in the mids. He returned to acting to fund his art supplies, including stage, films, and television. He continued painting; his work has since been shown in galleries and collections worldwide. Williams’ film debut was in The Last Angry Man (), but he came to national attention