Actor

Billy Dee Williams

April 6, 1937 · New York City, New York, USA

William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, and singer. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s, and nearly forty years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history. He made his film debut in 1959 in The Last Angry Man starring Paul Muni, in which he portrayed a juvenile delinquent. His first big break was in the acclaimed television movie, Brian's Song in which he played Gale Sayers. In 1972 he played Billie Holliday's husband Louis McKay in Motown Productions' Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues.

Notable work

8.4
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
as Lando Calrissian
7.9
Return of the Jedi (1983)
as Lando Calrissian
6.3
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
as Lando Calrissian
7.2
Batman (1989)
as Harvey Dent
7.4
The Lego Movie (2014)
as Lando (voice)
7.3
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
as Two-Face (voice)
8
Lost (2004)
as Billy Dee Williams
7.9
Modern Family (2009)
as Himself
7.6
NCIS (2003)
as Leroy Jethro Moore
7.5
The Conversation (1974)
as Man in Yellow Hat (uncredited)
7.9
That '70s Show (1998)
as Pastor Dan
8.2
White Collar (2009)
as Ford / Bradford Toman

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