Billy Dee Williams

Acting · Born 1937-04-06 in New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

• Batman as Harvey Dent
• Return of the Jedi as Lando Calrissian
• The Empire Strikes Back as Lando Calrissian
• Mahogany as Brian
• Nighthawks as Matthew Fox
• Lady Sings the Blues as Louis McKay
• Carter's Army as Pvt. Lewis
• Steel Sharks as Adm. Jim Perry
• Driving Me Crazy as Max
• Epoch: Evolution as Ferguson