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