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Dick Anthony Williams

Highest Rated: 82% The Jerk (1979)

Lowest Rated: 35% The Players Club (1998)

Birthday: Aug 9, 1934

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Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tony Award-winning stage actor Dick Anthony Williams never quite managed to match the power of his theater career on film and TV. But he has been able to land several series regular roles along the way, starting with the 1985-1986 ABC show "Our Family Honor," a "Goodfellas"-like drama in which Williams played a cop facing off against a Mafia family governed by Ray Liotta's Ed Santini. Williams was also a cop the following TV season on "Heart of the City," centered on the efforts of one single-parent force member, played by Robert Desiderio, to raise his two children. The character's daughter was played by a young Christina Applegate. In '91, Williams landed a regular role on yet another ABC-TV offering, "Homefront," set in the small Ohio town of River Run right after World War II. The show was the most well received of Williams's three ABC series efforts, garnering an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.

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Highest rated movies

82% 84% The Jerk
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80% 80% Uptight
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77% 42% The Star Chamber
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75% 53% The Anderson Tapes
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71% 75% Mo' Better Blues
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65% 62% The Rapture
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60% 85% The Mack
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56% 70% Tap
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44% 55% Gardens of Stone
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42% 39% The Deep
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 71% Blood and Bone Roberto (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Virgin Again Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Listed Missouri (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 70% Hot Boyz Harold (Character) - 1999
35% 85% The Players Club Mr. Armstrong (Character) $23.0M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gifted Unknown (Character) - 1994
65% 62% The Rapture Henry (Character) $1.3M 1991
71% 75% Mo' Better Blues Big Stop Williams (Character) $15.9M 1990
56% 70% Tap Francis (Character) $8.6M 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cast the First Stone Jackson Phillips (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Meeting Unknown (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet B.L. Stryker: Carolann Rick Herd (Character) - 1989
44% 55% Gardens of Stone Slasher Williams (Character) $4.4M 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cold Steel and Neon Lt. Ed Van Duzer (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grizzly II: Revenge Charlie (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Through Naked Eyes Det. Wylie (Character) - 1983
77% 42% The Star Chamber Det. Paul Mackey (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Something So Right Morris Elliot (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet This Is Kate Bennett... Leonard Hayes (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Gun in the House Det. Frank Campbell (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brave New World Helmholz Watson (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 57% An Almost Perfect Affair Andrew Jackson (Character) - 1979
82% 84% The Jerk Taj Jonson (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hollow Image Danny York (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 83% A Woman Called Moses John Tubman (Character) - 1978
42% 39% The Deep Slake (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Storyteller Anthony (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 75% Deadly Hero D.A. Winston (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Long Night Paul (Character) - 1976
60% 85% The Mack Pretty Tony (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 45% Five on the Black Hand Side Preston (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 30% Slaughter's Big Rip-Off Joe Creole (Character) - 1973
75% 53% The Anderson Tapes Spencer (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Killed Mary What's 'er Name? Malthus (Character) - 1971
80% 80% Uptight Corbin (Character) - 1968

TV

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67% No Score Yet Homefront Abe Davis (Character) 1991-1993 2003
90% 96% The Shield Reverend Neal Cook (Guest Star) 2002
83% No Score Yet That's Life Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
83% 95% NYPD Blue Harvey Boutier (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet JAG Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
9% No Score Yet Sparks Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet 83% Due South Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
25% No Score Yet The Client Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1994
74% 85% The X-Files Agent Reggie Purdue (Guest Star) 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet 227 Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heart of the City Lt. Ed Van Duzer (Character) 1986-1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hart to Hart Unknown (Guest Star) 1984
66% No Score Yet Archie Bunker's Place Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jeffersons Wayne (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Woman Called Moses John Tubman (Character) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files Maceo Prentiss (Character) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Starsky and Hutch Unknown (Guest Star) 1975