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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 9, 1934
Died
February 16, 2012
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Richard Williams
- Dick Williams
- Dick A. Williams
- Richard Anthony Williams
Dick Anthony Williams
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Grizzly II: Revenge
as Charlie
2020
2.9
Blood and Bone
as Roberto
2009
7.4
Steam
as August
2007
2.8
🎬
Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
as Self
2002
0.0
The Shield
as Reverend Neal Cook
2002
8.1
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
as Sen. Frank Radler
2000
7.0
Hot Boyz
as Harold
2000
4.6
The Players Club
as Mr. Armstrong
1998
6.3
JAG
as Special Agent Lang
1995
7.3
The Parent 'Hood
1995
7.3
Due South
as ATF Agent MacFadden
1994
7.6
Chicago Hope
as Charles Wilkes
1994
7.2
The X-Files
as Agent Reggie Purdue
1993
8.4
Percy & Thunder
as Caswell Baker
1993
0.0
🎬
The Gifted
as Daniel
1993
3.0
Martin
as Dick Anthony Williams
1992
7.7
The Rapture
as Henry
1991
5.7
Homefront
1991
5.4
Roc
as Ray Boyd
1991
7.8
Edward Scissorhands
as Officer Allen
1990
7.7
Law & Order
as Sam Burdette
1990
7.4
Mo' Better Blues
as Big Stop Williams
1990
6.5
Shannon's Deal
as McGuire
1990
8.0
Cast the First Stone
as Jackson Phillips
1989
0.0
Snoops
as Andrew Devilar
1989
5.0
The Meeting
as Malcolm X
1989
0.0
Tap
as Francis
1989
6.8
Gardens of Stone
as Slasher Williams
1987
6.2
Heart of the City
as Ed Van Duzer
1986
5.0
L.A. Law
as Charles Jackson
1986
7.0
L.A. Law
as Franklin Hovey
1986
7.0
Our Family Honor
as Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
1985
7.5
Summer Rental
as Dan Gardner
1985
6.1
Stingray
1985
7.2
🎬
Challenge of a Lifetime
as Dr. Hume
1985
3.5
Through Naked Eyes
as Det. Wylie
1983
4.1
Night Partners
as Instructor
1983
7.0
The Star Chamber
as Detective Paul Mackey
1983
6.0
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
0.0
Keeping On
as Samuel Taylor
1983
0.0
Something So Right
as Morris Elliot
1982
5.5
Sister, Sister
as Rev. Richard Henderson
1982
0.0
This Is Kate Bennett...
as Leonard Hayes
1982
0.0
Cagney & Lacey
as Sly
1982
7.0
The Sophisticated Gents
as Ralph Joplin
1981
7.0
A Gun in the House
as Det. Frank Campbell
1981
6.3
The Night the City Screamed
as Jim Downs
1980
5.0
Brave New World
as Helmholz Watson
1980
6.1
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
6.8
One in a Million
1980
5.0
The Jerk
as Taj
1979
6.9
Archie Bunker's Place
1979
6.5
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Hollow Image
as Danny
1979
3.5
An Almost Perfect Affair
as Jackson
1979
4.5
Some Kind of Miracle
as Dr. Hopstone
1979
0.0
A Woman Called Moses
as John Tubman
1978
7.0
King
as Malcolm X
1978
6.4
Freeman
as Freeman
1977
5.0
The Storyteller
as Anthony
1977
0.0
Lou Grant
1977
7.3
The Deep
as Slake
1977
6.0
The Richard Pryor Special?
as Writer
1977
7.0
🎬
The Long Night
as Paul
1976
0.0
Deadly Hero
as District Attorney Winston
1975
5.7
Dog Day Afternoon
as Limo Driver
1975
7.8
Starsky & Hutch
1975
7.3
The Rockford Files
as Maceo Prentiss
1974
7.6
Five on the Black Hand Side
as Preston
1973
6.8
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
as Joe Creole
1973
4.4
The Mack
as Pretty Tony
1973
6.4
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
as Malthus
1971
4.0
The Anderson Tapes
as Spencer
1971
6.1
Nanny and the Professor
1970
6.0
The Lost Man
as Ronald
1969
3.3
Uptight
as Corbin
1968
6.6
Ironside
1967
6.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9