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
• The Lego Movie as Lando (voice)
• The Conversation as Man in Yellow Hat (uncredited)
• Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy as Self
• The Lego Batman Movie as Two-Face (voice)
• I Am Not Your Negro as Self
• Mahogany as Brian
• Nighthawks as Matthew Fox

TV

• That '70s Show as Pastor Dan
• Martin as Billy Dee Williams
• Lost as Billy Dee Williams
• In Living Color
• NCIS as Leroy Jethro Moore
• White Collar as Ford / Bradford Toman
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? as Billy Dee Williams (voice)
• Star Wars Rebels as Lando Calrissian (voice)
• Modern Family as Himself
• Key & Peele as Billy Dee Williams