Billy Dee Williams
Actor

Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams is credited on 47 movies and 36 TV shows, best known by TMDB votes for The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Born April 6, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.

Filmography · 60 titles

The 60 best known of 83 credits on TMDB, by votes.

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About Billy Dee Williams

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

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