Billy Dee Williams

Biography

William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, voice actor, and artist. 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.

Billy Dee Williams

Biography

Known For (Movies)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

Return of the Jedi

The Empire Strikes Back

Batman

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

The Lego Movie

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

The Last Place on Earth

Batman Is Just Not That Into You

The Lego Batman Movie

The Conversation

Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal

Nighthawks

Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III

Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Known For (TV)

NCIS

Modern Family

Lost

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Scrubs

The Mike Douglas Show

Dancing with the Stars

That '70s Show

Glee

White Collar

The View

Dynasty

Mission: Impossible

Robot Chicken

Tony Awards

Star Wars Rebels

The Boondocks

Key & Peele

Private Practice

A Different World