Dick Anthony Williams
Date of birth: 1934-08-09
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Richard Williams, Dick Williams, Dick A. Williams , Richard Anthony Williams
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.
Movie Credits
Edward Scissorhands
1990-12-07
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Freeman
1977-12-31
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and
The Rapture
1991-10-04
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continu
The Deep
1977-06-17
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they dis
The Jerk
1979-12-14
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson se
Blood and Bone
2009-02-07
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a pr
The Anderson Tapes
1971-06-17
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her pos
The Star Chamber
1983-08-05
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge
Gardens of Stone
1987-05-05
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young so
The Mack
1973-04-04
A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his a
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020-02-17
All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attac
Brave New World
1980-03-07
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join
Hot Boyz
2000-01-15
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in lov
The Players Club
1998-04-08
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she m
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
1973-08-31
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slau
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979-04-27
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer a
The Lost Man
1969-07-11
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Steam
2007-11-15
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in t
The Long Night
1976-06-01
Steely Brown, a young boy living in Harlem, wanders the streets of the city one night, reflecting on
Through Naked Eyes
1983-12-11
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite
Deadly Hero
1975-12-14
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from
A Gun in the House
1981-02-11
A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is d
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983-03-22
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Miss
Percy & Thunder
1993-09-07
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
This Is Kate Bennett...
1982-05-28
In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter whose l
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000-07-02
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about th
Five on the Black Hand Side
1973-10-25
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American f
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1971-12-11
A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxe
Some Kind of Miracle
1979-01-03
The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have
Dog Day Afternoon
1975-09-21
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Son
The Storyteller
1977-12-05
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the bo
The Richard Pryor Special?
1977-05-05
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reveren
Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
2002-04-02
Produced for "The Mack" Special Edition DVD.
Cast the First Stone
1989-11-13
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at
Mo' Better Blues
1990-08-03
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness abo
The Night the City Screamed
1980-12-14
A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.
Sister, Sister
1982-06-07
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home
The Gifted
1993-01-21
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the
Uptight
1968-12-28
Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants build
Summer Rental
1985-08-09
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Thing
Tap
1989-02-12
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his
Keeping On
1983-02-08
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
Night Partners
1983-10-11
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by workin
Challenge of a Lifetime
1985-02-14
Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs awa
The Meeting
1989-05-03
Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.
Hollow Image
1979-06-24
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life
Something So Right
1982-11-30
Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't