Dick Anthony Williams


About

Birth Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born
August 09, 1934
Died
February 16, 2012
Cause of Death
Undetermined

Biography

Tony Award-winning stage actor Dick Anthony Williams never quite managed to match the power of his theater career on film and TV. But he has been able to land several series regular roles along the way, starting with the 1985-1986 ABC show "Our Family Honor," a "Goodfellas"-like drama in which Williams played a cop facing off against a Mafia family governed by Ray Liotta's Ed Santini. Wi...

Biography

Tony Award-winning stage actor Dick Anthony Williams never quite managed to match the power of his theater career on film and TV. But he has been able to land several series regular roles along the way, starting with the 1985-1986 ABC show "Our Family Honor," a "Goodfellas"-like drama in which Williams played a cop facing off against a Mafia family governed by Ray Liotta's Ed Santini. Williams was also a cop the following TV season on "Heart of the City," centered on the efforts of one single-parent force member, played by Robert Desiderio, to raise his two children. The character's daughter was played by a young Christina Applegate. In '91, Williams landed a regular role on yet another ABC-TV offering, "Homefront," set in the small Ohio town of River Run right after World War II. The show was the most well received of Williams's three ABC series efforts, garnering an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Blood and Bone (2009)
Steam (2008)
Hot Boyz (2000)
The Players Club (1998)
A Room Without Doors (1998)
Percy and Thunder - Part 1 (1993)
Percy and Thunder - Part 2 (1993)
Percy and Thunder (1993)
The Rapture (1991)
Henry
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Cast the First Stone (1989)
Jackson Phillips
Royal Gambit (1989)
Rick Herd
Tap (1989)
Gardens Of Stone (1987)
Challenge of a Lifetime (1985)
Dr Hume
Summer Rental (1985)
The Star Chamber (1983)
Through Naked Eyes (1983)
Night Partners (1983)
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
Sister, Sister (1982)
This Is Kate Bennett... (1982)
Leonard Hayes
Something So Right (1982)
A Gun In The House (1981)
Detective Campbell
Brave New World (1980)
Helmholtz Watson
The Night the City Screamed (1980)
An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
Some Kind Of Miracle (1979)
Dr Hopstone
The Jerk (1979)
Hollow Image (1979)
Danny York
The Storyteller (1977)
The Deep (1977)
Slake
The Long Night (1976)
Deadly Hero (1976)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Mack (1973)
Pretty Tony

Cast (Special)

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)
A Room Without Doors (1999)
Clem
What About Your Friends? (1995)
The 7th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards (1992)
Performer
The Meeting (1989)
Big John (1983)
Captain Hawkins; Their Superior
Keeping On (1983)
The Richard Pryor Special (1982)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

After All (1999)
James A. Michener's "Space" (1985)
The Sophisticated Gents (1981)
Ralph Joplin
King (1978)
A Woman Called Moses (1978)

Life Events

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