Clarence Williams III

Oyuncu Doğum: 1939-08-21 • New York City, New York, USA

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Clarence Williams III (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021) was an American actor. Williams was the son of a professional musician, Clarence "Clay" Williams Jr., and grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams and his singer-actress wife, Eva Taylor. Raised by his paternal grandmother, he became interested in acting after accidentally walking onto a stage at a theater below a Harlem YMCA. Williams began pursuing an acting career after spending two years as a U.S. Army paratrooper in C Company, 506th Infantry, of the 101st Airborne Division. He first appeared on Broadway in The Long Dream (1960). Continuing his work on stage, he appeared in Walk in Darkness (1963), Sarah and the Sax (1964), Doubletalk (1964), and King John. His breakout theatrical role was in William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. The New York Times drama critic Howard Taubman wrote of his performance, "Mr. Williams glides like a dancer, giving his long, fraudulently airy speeches the inner rhythms of fear and showing the nakedness of terror when he ceases to pretend." He also served as artist-in-residence at Brandeis University in 1966. Williams' breakout television role was as undercover cop Linc Hayes on the popular ABC counterculture police television series The Mod Squad (1968), along with fellow relative unknowns Michael Cole and Peggy Lipton. After the series ended in 1973, he worked in a variety of genres on stage and screen, from comedy (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Half-Baked) to sci-fi (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and drama (Purple Rain). Spanning over forty years, his career included the role of Prince's tormented father, who was also a musician, in Purple Rain (1984), A guest appearance in Miami Vice (1985), a recurring role in the surreal TV series Twin Peaks (1990), a good cop in Deep Cover (1992), a rioter in the mini-series Against the Wall (1994), and Wesley Snipes' chemically dependent father in Sugar Hill (1993). His other roles on television include Hill Street Blues, the Canadian cult classic The Littlest Hobo, Miami Vice, The Highwayman, Burn Notice, Everybody Hates Chris, Justified, Cold Case, and Law & Order. He can be seen in films such as 52 Pick-Up, Life, The Cool World, Deep Cover, Tales from the Hood, Half-Baked, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, Hoodlum, Frogs for Snakes, Starstruck, The General's Daughter, Reindeer Games, Impostor, and as the early jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton in The Legend of 1900. He also played a supporting role as George Wallace's fictional African-American butler and caretaker in the 1997 TNT film George Wallace. From 2003 to 2007, Williams had a recurring role as Philby Cross in the Mystery Woman film series on the Hallmark Channel. He appeared in all but the first of the eleven films alongside Kellie Martin (J.E. Freeman played Philby in the Mystery Woman first film). In the seventh (Mystery Woman: At First Sight) film, he reunited with his Mod Squad co-star Michael Cole. He played Bumpy Johnson in the film American Gangster. From 2005 to 2007 Williams had another recurring role as the voice of Councilor Andam on the Disney animated series American Dragon: Jake Long. Williams died in Los Angeles, on June 4, 2021, at the age of 81, from colon cancer. He is buried in St Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York.

Clarence Williams III

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Filmografi (Rol Aldığı Yapımlar)

İkiz Tepeler

1900 Efsanesi

Everybody Hates Chris

Miracles

The House of Dies Drear

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Tales from the Crypt

Justified

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Judgement

Genç Ejder

Millennium

Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues

Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend

Amerikan Gangsteri

Burn Notice

The Littlest Hobo

Judging Amy

Miami Vice

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

New York Undercover

Başkanların Hizmetkârı

Law & Order

Empire

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

The Legend of Tarzan

Profiler

The Return of Mod Squad

Walker, Texas Ranger

Shades of L.A.

The Cosby Show

Tarzan

Deep Cover

Mystery Woman: Oh Baby

George Wallace

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Mor Yağmur

Mystery Woman: Redemption

Blue Hill Avenue

Mystery Woman: Snapshot

Nasty Boys, Part 2: Lone Justice

The Danny Thomas Hour

George Wallace

Müebbet Kuşları

Mystery Woman: Game Time

T. J. Hooker

T. J. Hooker

T. J. Hooker

Gangsterler Diyarı

Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery

Fastlane

Generalin Kızı

Nasty Boys

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Beceriksizler

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Mystery Woman: In the Shadows

Mystery Woman: At First Sight

Last Rites

Tales from the Hood

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

Jake and the Fatman

Against the Wall

İki Yüzlü

52 Pick-Up

Starstruck

The Mod Squad

The Brave

Manyak Polis 2

Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder

A Day in the Life

The Blue Hour

Harlem'in Arka Yakası

Soygun

The Love Bug

The Immortals