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  BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
His introduction in the "Star Wars" trilogy allowed Billy Dee to continue his role in "Return of the Jedi"; as General Calrissian he piloted the Millennium Falcon directly into the second Death Star destroying it from within.
Recently, Billy Dee Williams was nominated for an "Independent Spirit Award" for his role in "The Visit", portraying a father whose son is dying of AIDS in prison.
Billy Dee is also an accomplished artist whose paintings are displayed around the globe including the USA, Japan, and Canada.
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  Billy Dee Williams - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
William December Williams, better known as Billy Dee Williams (born April 6, 1937), is an actor.
Williams originally took the role with the agreement that it would land him in a sequel playing the villain Two Face, but the studio did not use him when the time came for the third installment, Batman Forever.
Williams is also well-known for his appearance in advertisements for Colt 45, a low-cost brand of malt liquor.
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 Billy Dee Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Williams appeared in numerous other films, most recently lending his voice to Oedipus (2004).
Williams originally took the role knowing that it would land him in a sequel playing the supervillain Two-Face, but the studio did not use him when the time came for the third installment, Batman Forever.
On the television sitcom The Jeffersons, the character of Florence the maid (Marla Gibbs) was a devout fan of Williams', referencing him several times during the course of the series.
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 Billy Dee Williams - MovieActors.com
Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams in New York City, New York on April 6, 1937.
Initially, however, Williams found success as an artist, having achieved rather credible success; Williams has exhibited priceless oil canvasses and sold many which were purchased for upwards of tens of thousands of dollars.
Williams screen debut came at a young age however, and in 1959 he was cast in the rough'n'tough film "Last Angry Man".
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 USATODAY.com - Billy Dee Williams fights minority cancers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As General Lando Calrissian in Return of the Jedi, Billy Dee Williams successfully led the attack that ultimately destroyed the second Death Star.
Williams, who recently appeared on Gideon's Crossing as a character suffering from lung cancer, refuses to let anyone take this problem lying down.
Williams has taken his own health seriously after heeding the warnings in his own family history.
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 The Celebrity Collector - Billy Dee Williams
So, Billy Dee Williams, or any other fan of the Buonaiuto cookie jar line, is going to have to log onto eBay or somehow seek out other collectors to find the pieces they want.
Billy Dee's comment about wanting more jars may, by necessity, force him to consider the talents of other artists.
Billy Dee Williams was born in 1937 and grew up in the Harlem section of New York City.
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 Billy Dee Williams Photos - Billy Dee Williams News - Billy Dee Williams Information
Billy was formerly represented by Hollywood powerhouse agent Preeth Kumar Sangavaram, who also represents the likes of Sinbad and Bill Duke.
Billy starred in three out of the top five grossing films in the 1980's, Star Wars episodes five and six and Batman.
Billy Dee Williams: I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful ceramic cookie jar, made to resemble an opera singer.
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 Crescent Blues| Billy Dee Williams: An Actor's Art
As himself, Billy Dee Williams paints impressionistic portraits of the Tuskegee Airmen, the heroic African-American pilots whose real-life exploits changed the course of American military history.
Juggling exhibit deadlines with writing and acting chores keeps Williams "pretty busy." But shifting from the fine to lively arts is nothing new for the actor, who trained to be a painter.
Williams won the prestigious Guggenheim and Hallgarten Awards at 19, but his work on stage and screen soon overtook his interest in the fine arts.
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 Amazon.ca: Twilight: Books: Billy Dee Williams,Elizabeth Atkins Bowman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alleged romantic thriller Twilight is the result of a collaboration between actor Billy Dee Williams and novelist Elizabeth Atkins Bowman (White Chocolate).
While reading this novel, I could picture Billy Dee Williams as Sonny Whittaker, using that silky smooth voice of his to whisper to the judge during their hot and steamy sexual encounters, speak terms of endearment to his children and express anger and frustration to his father in law, attorney and the media.
Rio Di Janeiro, a city that is famous for Carnival and the beauty of the country of Brazil, is the primary setting for Billy Dee Williams' and Elizabeth Atkins Bowman's novel.
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 Billy Dee Williams
Williams originally took the role knowing that it would land him in a sequel playing the supervillain Two Face, but the studio did not use him when the time came for the third installment, Batman Forever.
He was also well-known for his appearance in advertisements for Colt 45, a low-cost brand of malt liquor.
Williams stated to Danza, "I was so enamored...so in love with that cool crisp taste that I remember being on set making Empire Strikes Back, with George, Mark, and Harrison at something, like, seven in the morning, and keeping a Colt 45 in the gun holdster on Lando's belt.
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 Billy Dee Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born in New York City in 1937, Billy Dee Williams has had a long and diverse career that has encompassed acting, painting, writing, and even the release of Undeniable, his own Avon fragrance.
Williams also starred in such films as Batman, Brian's Song and Nighthawks with Sylvester Stallone.
Among his myriad interests, Williams has had a long fascination with psychic phenomena and psychic readings and most recently he's teamed up with award-winning author Rob MacGregor to write PSI/Net -- a novel based on an actual government program of psychic spying.
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 Billy dee williams - Fri Apr 20: Dyslexia; Valencia; Brendan McCullum; Billy Dee
To millions of fans around the world, Billy Dee Williams is the epitome of the dashing leading man. From his trailblazing roles in Lady Sings the Blues and
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Billy Dee Williams One of the biggest stars of the original Star Wars trilogy is on a Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian is here for the
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 GodDAMN! That's Some Good Site!
Let's face it, those Colt 45 commercials with Billy Dee Williams and Fab Five Freddie were some of the coolest commercials around.
This test was personally prepared by Billy Dee Williams and involves actual situations in which he proved his smoothness.
Billy Dee Williams fervently tries to finish off the forty he just stole from Chewbacca before Chewie can kill him in retaliation.
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 Billy Dee Williams @ Brooks International Speakers Bureau
Now Williams brings his exceptional talent and presence to the campus stage for a powerful one man tour-de-force performance on the amazing life of another legendary swashbuckler...
This is just one of the many fascinating aspects that Williams explores as he brings Dumas, his work and his legacy to life on stage.
Through dramatic readings and theatrical recreations, Williams electrifies the stage with the characters and heroism that have made Dumas' writing so enduring, as well as the real-life struggles and passions that earned Dumas the unofficial title "King of Paris." Along the way, Williams also shares many personal insights into his own hurdles and triumphs.
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 Billy Dee Williams News
News about Billy Dee Williams continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Actor/artist Billy Dee Williams is in Philadelphia this weekend for the nation's largest African American art expo.
Sharon Lewis clearly relishes the idea of paying tribute to Billie Holiday on Saturday night during her gig at Rosa's Lounge as part of the Chicago Blues Tour's Memorial Day weekend event.
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 Billy Dee Williams Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Billy Dee Williams, Maxwell Caulfield, Tracy Scoggins, Gary Roberts, Richard Cody, Stephen Davies.
Starring Billy Dee Williams, James Caan, Jack Warden, Shelley Fabares, Judy Pace, David Huddleston.
Billy Dee Williams, Leslie Uggams, Jada Pinkett, Ajai Sanders.
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 Billy Dee Williams at artist-blitz
Billy Dee Williams movie stills from the mainstream movies, also feature original theme wallpaper
Billy Dee Williams (born William December Williams in April 6, 1937) is an African American actor.
Many fans were disappointed with that decision, believing he would have been superior in the role.
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 Billy Dee Williams : Afrocentric Gifts - The Official Site
Billy Dee Williams began drawing at an early age, and developed his fundamental skills in painting while attending New York’s High School of Music and Art.
Starring in movies such as Lady Sings the Blues and Star Wars brought Williams instant recognition for his acting talents, while his paintings found an audience with art collectors around the world.
Williams’ paintings hang in the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, The Schomberg Museum in New York and in homes and galleries around the world.
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 eBay item 135798767 (Ends 07/29/99, 22:14:56 PDT) - Billy Dee Williams (Your very own actor!)
I've been very close with Billy for almost 9 years now, and I must say that he is well past his prime.
Billy agreed to this, as long as he gets "his way" with some things.
Billy comes with 3 different capes, a fake Star Wars-style laser gun type thing, and a couple of cases of Colt 45 Double Malt.
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 PopMatters | Film | Interviews | Billy Dee Williams - The Visit
Not only is he a renowned tv, film, and stage performer, but he's also a singer (he sang on the group-hug track,"Voices That Care") and an accomplished artist: when we spoke on the phone in February, he was preparing to travel to Tokyo for a gallery show of his paintings.
Still, Williams is probably best known for his movies: Brian's Song (1971), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars (1976), and of course, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).
Currently, Williams is talking about The Visit, Jordan Walker-Pearlman's feature debut, about a young man (Hill Harper) dying of AIDS in prison, trying to reconcile with his father, Henry, played by Billy Dee Williams.
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 ThinWhiteDuke :
On September 23rd, 2005, I had an interview with Billy Dee Williams in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
Williams, in the first two Batman movies directed by Tim Burton you played the role of Harvey Dent, mayor of Gotham, who in the third movie, directed by Joel Schumacher, becomes 'Two-Face'; a bad guy.
My last question is for Derek Maki (Billy Dee's assistant who was also present at the interview): can you take a picture?
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 Billy Dee Williams @ Filmbug
Billy Dee Williams has been a romantic leading man, an action super-hero, a cowboy, a policeman, federal agent, heroic friend and much more in his outstanding career.
At the age of seven, Billy Dee Williams made his debut on Broadway in The Firebrand of Florence, a production whose title may have been prophetic for Williams, who went on to make a name for himself in theatre, television and feature films.
Tell us what you think of Billy Dee Williams in the Filmbug forum...
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 Star Wars: Biography | Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams Lando Calrissian to Star Wars fans has worked in the film industry since 1959.
Williams spent the next several years doing small television and film roles and the occasional off-Broadway play.
After several more parts, both onscreen and off, Williams won the role of Cloud City's Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back.
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 Billy Dee Williams Bio - Billy Dee Williams Biography - Billy Dee Williams Stories
Billy Dee Williams Bio - Billy Dee Williams Biography - Billy Dee Williams Stories
Cheerful but determined-looking fl American star who has been acting on and off sinve the age of seven.
Bio information on Billy Dee Williams was taken from Quinkan's Film Stars book copyright 1991.
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 Billy Dee Williams - Photos, Bio and News for Billy Dee Williams | TVGuide.com
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 Amazon.ca: Psi/Net: Books: Billy Dee Williams,Rob MacGregor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
by Billy Dee Williams (Author), Rob MacGregor (Author)
Billy Dee Williams is a modern Renaissance man. An accomplished stage, television, and screen actor, he's best known to science fiction fans as Lando Calrissian of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
He's also a painter whose works have been shown across the U.S. and are part of the National Gallery's permanent collection.
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 Billy Dee Williams Forum @ Filmbug
Billy Dee Does The Orpheum Theater (Wed Apr 7, 2004 4:05pm ET)
Williams on stage in "If These Hips could Talk" at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee.
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 Billy Dee Williams Picture, Wallpaper and Screensaver. Additinal info : Movies, Music, DVD and CDs.
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Visit Billy Dee Williams photo galllery, wallpaper and screensaver page.
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