Clarence Williams III актер
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- Всего известных фильмов 60
Clarence Williams III (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021) was an American actor. Williams was the son of a professional musician, Clarence Clay Williams Jr., and grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams and his singer-actress wife, Eva Taylor. Raised by his paternal grandmother, he became interested in acting after accidentally walking onto a stage at a theater below a Harlem YMCA.Williams began pursuing an acting career after spending two years as a U.S. Army paratrooper in C Company, 506th Infantry, of the 101st Airborne Division. He first appeared on Broadway in The Long Dream (1960). Continuing his work on stage, he appeared in Walk in Darkness (1963), Sarah and the Sax (1964), Doubletalk (1964), and King John. His breakout theatrical role was in William Hanleys Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. The New York Times drama critic Howard Taubman wrote of his performance, Mr. Williams glides like a dancer, giving his long, fraudulently airy speeches the inner rhythms of fear and showing the nakedness of terror when he ceases to pretend. He also served as artist-in-residence at Brandeis University in 1966.Williams breakout television role was as undercover cop Linc Hayes on the popular ABC counterculture police television series The Mod Squad (1968), along with fellow relative unknowns Michael Cole and Peggy Lipton. After the series ended in 1973, he worked in a variety of genres on stage and screen, from comedy (Im Gonna Git You Sucka, Half-Baked) to sci-fi (Star Trek Deep Space Nine), and drama (Purple Rain).Spanning over forty years, his career included the role of Princes tormented father, who was also a musician, in Purple Rain (1984), A guest appearance in Miami Vice (1985), a recurring role in the surreal TV series Twin Peaks (1990), a good cop in Deep Cover (1992), a rioter in the mini-series Against the Wall (1994), and Wesley Snipes chemically dependent father in Sugar Hill (1993). His other roles on television include Hill Street Blues, the Canadian cult classic The Littlest Hobo, Miami Vice, The Highwayman, Burn Notice, Everybody Hates Chris, Justified, Cold Case, and Law & Order. He can be seen in films such as 52 Pick-Up, Life, The Cool World, Deep Cover, Tales from the Hood, Half-Baked, King A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, Hoodlum, Frogs for Snakes, Starstruck, The Generals Daughter, Reindeer Games, Impostor, and as the early jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton in The Legend of 1900. He also played a supporting role as George Wallaces fictional African-American butler and caretaker in the 1997 TNT film George Wallace.From 2003 to 2007, Williams had a recurring role as Philby Cross in the Mystery Woman film series on the Hallmark Channel. He appeared in all but the first of the eleven films alongside Kellie Martin (J.E. Freeman played Philby in the Mystery Woman first film). In the seventh (Mystery Woman At First Sight) film, he reunited with his Mod Squad co-star Michael Cole. He played Bumpy Johnson in the film American Gangster. From 2005 to 2007 Williams had another recurring role as the voice of Councilor Andam on the Disney animated series American Dragon Jake Long.Williams died in Los Angeles, on June 4, 2021, at the age of 81, from colon cancer. He is buried in St Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York.
Samson Simpson
Фильм 1998
Father Stratton
Фильм 1997
Father
Фильм 1984
Benny
Фильм 1995
Bill
Фильм 2002
Deputy Sheriff Virgil
Фильм 1991
Raymond
Фильм 1993
Benny
Фильм 2001
Self (archive footage)
Фильм 1970
Blood
Фильм 1963
Mayhew Skinner
Фильм 1984
General Greenboro
Фильм 1996
Leron Becker
Фильм 2000
Bumpy Johnson (uncredited)
Фильм 2007
Фильм 1990
Lincoln Hayes
Фильм 1979
Grand Daddy
Фильм 1997
Roscoe
Фильм 2018
Christopher, the Caretaker
Фильм 1996
Secretary of Defense (uncredited)
Фильм 2001
Zachary
Фильм 2003
Tv 2005
Tv 2003
Tv 1984
Deputy Commissioner Luther Dobbs
Tv 1993
Tv 1981
Tv 1996
Tv 1968
Tv 1966
Tv 1990
Jean Pierre's Father
Tv 2007
Mr. Thornehill
Tv 1984
Tv 1967
