
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.
Awards & recognition
- Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame · 1984
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography50+ titles

Icons Unearthed: Batman

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Half & Half

White Collar

The Boondocks

Scrubs

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Lost

Modern Family

That '70s Show

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

I Am Not Your Negro

Star Wars Rebels

Key and Peele

Robot Chicken

NCIS

Martin

Mission: Impossible

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

Private Practice

North and South

The Conversation

Quincy

The Lego Movie

And Just Like That...

Celebrity Ghost Stories

The Jeffersons

Brian's Song

The Lego Batman Movie

Batman

A Different World

Comic Book Men

Glee

Courage

The Out of Towners

The Hughleys

LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures

LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special

Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales

Wiseguy

Dynasty

The Final Comedown

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Nighthawks

The Glass House

LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Scott Joplin

Is That Black Enough for You?!?