Dick Anthony Williams
Acting • Born 1934-08-09 – Died 2012-02-16
Biography
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
79 credits
Edward Scissorhands
Movie • 1990
Officer Allen
Freeman
Movie • 1977
Freeman
The Rapture
Movie • 1991
Henry
The Deep
Movie • 1977
Slake
The Jerk
Movie • 1979
Taj
Blood and Bone
Movie • 2009
Roberto
The Anderson Tapes
Movie • 1971
Spencer
The Star Chamber
Movie • 1983
Detective Paul Mackey
Gardens of Stone
Movie • 1987
Slasher Williams
The Mack
Movie • 1973
Pretty Tony
Grizzly II: Revenge
Movie • 2020
Charlie
Brave New World
Movie • 1980
Helmholz Watson
Hot Boyz
Movie • 2000
Harold
The Players Club
Movie • 1998
Mr. Armstrong
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Movie • 1973
Joe Creole
An Almost Perfect Affair
Movie • 1979
Jackson
The Lost Man
Movie • 1969
Ronald
Steam
Movie • 2007
August
The Long Night
Movie • 1976
Paul
Through Naked Eyes
Movie • 1983
Det. Wylie
Deadly Hero
Movie • 1975
District Attorney Winston
A Gun in the House
Movie • 1981
Det. Frank Campbell
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Movie • 1983
Percy & Thunder
Movie • 1993
Caswell Baker
This Is Kate Bennett...
Movie • 1982
Leonard Hayes
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Movie • 2000
Sen. Frank Radler
Five on the Black Hand Side
Movie • 1973
Preston
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Movie • 1971
Malthus
Some Kind of Miracle
Movie • 1979
Dr. Hopstone
Dog Day Afternoon
Movie • 1975
Limo Driver
The Storyteller
Movie • 1977
Anthony
The Richard Pryor Special?
Movie • 1977
Writer
Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
Movie • 2002
Self
Cast the First Stone
Movie • 1989
Jackson Phillips
Mo' Better Blues
Movie • 1990
Big Stop Williams
The Night the City Screamed
Movie • 1980
Jim Downs
Sister, Sister
Movie • 1982
Rev. Richard Henderson
The Gifted
Movie • 1993
Daniel
Uptight
Movie • 1968
Corbin
Summer Rental
Movie • 1985
Dan Gardner
Tap
Movie • 1989
Francis
Keeping On
Movie • 1983
Samuel Taylor
Night Partners
Movie • 1983
Instructor
Challenge of a Lifetime
Movie • 1985
Dr. Hume
The Meeting
Movie • 1989
Malcolm X
Hollow Image
Movie • 1979
Danny
Something So Right
Movie • 1982
Morris Elliot
Black Listed
Movie • 2003
Missouri
Lou Grant
TV • 1977
Martin
TV • 1992
Dick Anthony Williams
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
TV • 1980
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Charles Jackson
Due South
TV • 1994
ATF Agent MacFadden
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
King
TV • 1978
Malcolm X
Homefront
TV • 1991
The Parent 'Hood
TV • 1995
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Agent Reggie Purdue
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Sly
Archie Bunker's Place
TV • 1979
JAG
TV • 1995
Special Agent Lang
Stingray
TV • 1985
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Charles Wilkes
Ironside
TV • 1967
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Shannon's Deal
TV • 1990
McGuire
Our Family Honor
TV • 1985
Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
Heart of the City
TV • 1986
Ed Van Duzer
One in a Million
TV • 1980
The Sophisticated Gents
TV • 1981
Ralph Joplin
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Sam Burdette
Roc
TV • 1991
Ray Boyd
The Shield
TV • 2002
Reverend Neal Cook
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Franklin Hovey
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Maceo Prentiss
A Woman Called Moses
TV • 1978
John Tubman
Snoops
TV • 1989
Andrew Devilar
The Larry Sanders Show
TV • 1992
Beverly's Father