Dick Anthony Williams
Richard Anthony Williams (August 9, 1934 – February 16, 2012) was an American actor. Williams is best known for his starring performances on Broadway in The Poison Tree, What the Wine-Sellers Buy and Black Picture Show. Williams also had notable roles in 1970s blaxploitation films such as The Mack and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9639 |
| Birthday | 1934-08-09 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Richard Williams, Dick Williams, Dick A. Williams , Richard Anthony Williams, |
1990
Edward Scissorhands
7.72/13719
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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Edward Scissorhands
1977
Freeman
6/2
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony...
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Freeman
1991
The Rapture
5.737/93
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have ima...
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The Rapture
1977
The Deep
6/263
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
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The Deep
1979
The Jerk
6.894/898
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...
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The Jerk
2009
Blood and Bone
7.327/882
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
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Blood and Bone
1971
The Anderson Tapes
6.138/181
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the enti...
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The Anderson Tapes
1983
The Star Chamber
6.055/181
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle wi...
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The Star Chamber
1987
Gardens of Stone
6.216/125
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable...
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Gardens of Stone
1973
The Mack
6.415/65
A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his activities draw the ire of two corrupt cops and the...
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The Mack
2020
Grizzly II: Revenge
3.189/53
All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [...
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Grizzly II: Revenge
1980
Brave New World
6.2/30
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from...
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Brave New World
2000
Hot Boyz
4.848/23
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One nig...
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Hot Boyz
1998
The Players Club
6.326/89
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, D...
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The Players Club
1973
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
5/8
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes,...
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
1979
An Almost Perfect Affair
5/7
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair be...
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An Almost Perfect Affair
1969
The Lost Man
4.2/5
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
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The Lost Man
2007
Steam
2.8/6
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually ge...
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Steam
1976
The Long Night
7/1
Steely Brown, a young boy living in Harlem, wanders the streets of the city one night, reflecting on what led to the disappearance of his father. Mee...
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The Long Night
1983
Through Naked Eyes
4.556/9
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...
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Through Naked Eyes
1975
Deadly Hero
5.781/16
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tend...
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Deadly Hero
1981
A Gun in the House
6.75/4
A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent...
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A Gun in the House
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
7/1
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1993
Percy & Thunder
8/1
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Percy & Thunder
1982
This Is Kate Bennett...
7/1
In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter whose life is imperiled, along with that of her young dau...
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This Is Kate Bennett...
2000
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
7.017/238
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men (2000)
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X-Men: The Mutant Watch
1973
Five on the Black Hand Side
7.167/6
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values whe...
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Five on the Black Hand Side
1971
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
4.857/7
A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest...
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
1979
Some Kind of Miracle
10/1
The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have to adjust to his being in a wheelchair for the re...
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Some Kind of Miracle
1975
Dog Day Afternoon
7.844/3346
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turn...
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Dog Day Afternoon
1977
The Storyteller
9/1
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
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The Storyteller
1977
The Richard Pryor Special?
7.167/6
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Da...
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The Richard Pryor Special?
2002
Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
8/1
Produced for "The Mack" Special Edition DVD.
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Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
1989
Cast the First Stone
7/1
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loo...
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Cast the First Stone
1990
Mo' Better Blues
6.483/258
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he...
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Mo' Better Blues
1980
The Night the City Screamed
6/4
A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.
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The Night the City Screamed
1982
Sister, Sister
8/1
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
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Sister, Sister
1993
The Gifted
5.5/2
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic p...
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The Gifted
1968
Uptight
6.824/17
Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a...
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Uptight
1985
Summer Rental
6.135/230
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters,...
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Summer Rental
1989
Tap
6.839/28
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend,...
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Tap
1983
Keeping On
7/1
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
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Keeping On
1983
Night Partners
7.5/2
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.
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Night Partners
1985
Challenge of a Lifetime
5/3
Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her....
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Challenge of a Lifetime
1989
The Meeting
8/1
Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.
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The Meeting
1979
Hollow Image
5.667/3
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old bo...
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Hollow Image
1982
Something So Right
5.857/7
Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a r...
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Something So Right
2003
Black Listed
4/3
Alan Chambers (Townsend) is a lawyer and sick of his job. He corrals his friends into forming a vigilante group. Everyone goes along with it at first,...
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