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Billy Dee Williams

William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. is an American actor and novelist. He is best known as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s for The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, and thirty-six 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.


Aliases
  • William December Williams Jr.
English español

Dynasty

1981
as Brady Lloyd

LEGO Star Wars

2013
as Lando Calrissian

Double Dare (1985)

1985
as Billy Diamond

The Rebels

2014
as Coach Paysinger

Chiefs

1983
as Tyler Watts

Director

Episode The Jeffersons
Some Enchanted Evening
1984

Guest Star

Episode The Talk
Billy Dee Williams
2019
Episode Robot Chicken
P.S. Yes, in That Way
2009
Episode Man Up!
Fear
2011
Episode Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Scooby-Doo and the Sky Town Cool School!
2021
Episode Half & Half
The Big Fetish What You Started Episode
2004
Episode LEGO Star Wars
Droid Tales: Mission to Mos Eisley
2015
Episode Private Practice
Serving Two Masters
2008
Episode The Boondocks
The Story of Lando Freeman
2010
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Judith Ivey, Billy Dee Williams, Styx (
1991
Episode Martin
Break Up (3)
1993
Episode Mission: Impossible
The Miracle
1971
Episode That '70s Show
Baby Don't You Do It
2004
Episode LEGO Star Wars
Droid Tales: Flight of the Falcon
2015
Episode Star Wars Rebels
The Siege of Lothal (2)
2015
Episode The Hughleys
Forty Acres and a Fool
2001
Episode Modern Family
New Year's Eve
2013
Episode The Jeffersons
Me and Billy Dee
1978
Episode Code Name: Eternity
Never Go Home
2000
Episode Lost
Exposé
2007
Episode The Hughleys
Roots (2)
1999
Episode In Living Color
Laquita Meets Billy Dee
1990
Episode Dan August
The Manufactured Man
1971
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Samuel L. Jackson, Minnie Driver, Pitbull, G.R.L.
2014
Episode 227
Play it Again, Stan
1989
Episode A Different World
College Kid
1993
Episode Robot Chicken
The Robot Chicken Bitch Pudding Special
2014
Episode LEGO Star Wars
Droid Tales: Gambit on Geonosis
2015
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live After Darth: A Star Wars Special
2019
Episode Sesame Street
Episode 2494
1988
Episode Coronet Blue
Six Months to Mars
1967
Episode NCIS
The Namesake
2012
Episode NCIS
Honor Thy Father
2014
Episode LEGO Star Wars
Droid Tales: Exit from Endor
2015
Episode Earth to Ned
I’ve Got a Ned Feeling About This
2020
Episode White Collar
Countermeasures
2011
Episode Scrubs
Her Story II
2006
Episode Star Wars Rebels
Idiot's Array
2015
Episode Code Name: Eternity
Laura's Story
2000
Episode LEGO Star Wars
Droid Tales: Crisis on Coruscant
2015
Episode The F.B.I.
Eye of the Storm
1969
Episode 227
Washington Affair
1986
Episode The Lola Falana Show
Billy Dee Williams, Gabe Kaplin
1976