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Dick Anthony Williams
Highest Rated: 82% The Jerk (1979)
Lowest Rated: 35% The Players Club (1998)
Birthday: Aug 9, 1934
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.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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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 |
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Hot Boyz | Harold (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 35% |
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The Players Club | Mr. Armstrong (Character) | $23.0M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gifted | Unknown (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 65% |
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The Rapture | Henry (Character) | $1.3M | 1991 |
| 71% |
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Mo' Better Blues | Big Stop Williams (Character) | $15.9M | 1990 |
| 56% |
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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% |
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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% |
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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 |
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An Almost Perfect Affair | Andrew Jackson (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 82% |
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The Jerk | Taj Jonson (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollow Image | Danny York (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet |
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A Woman Called Moses | John Tubman (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 42% |
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The Deep | Slake (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Storyteller | Anthony (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet |
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Deadly Hero | D.A. Winston (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Long Night | Paul (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 60% |
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The Mack | Pretty Tony (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet |
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Five on the Black Hand Side | Preston (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet |
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off | Joe Creole (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 76% |
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The Anderson Tapes | Spencer (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Killed Mary What's 'er Name? | Malthus (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 80% |
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Uptight | Corbin (Character) | - | 1968 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 93% | 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 |