Billy Dee Williams - Wikipedia
In the 1980s, he was cast as Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), becoming the first black actor with a major role in the Star Wars franchise. He reprised his role in subsequent Star Wars films and media.
Billy Dee Williams - IMDb
He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Billy Dee Williams - Biography - IMDb
He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Lando Calrissian - Wikipedia
Lando is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and by Donald Glover in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
Billy Dee Williams reflects on a lifetime as artist and actor
Feb 23, 2024 · Known to legions of Star Wars fans as Lando Calrissian, the debonair actor Billy Dee Williams has spent almost 80 years on screen and on stage. But there’s more to the man than the famous blue cape.
Billy Dee Williams filmography - Wikipedia
He is most known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Mahogany (1975), Scott Joplin (1977), and Nighthawks (1981), as Harvey Dent in Batman (1989) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Last Angry Man (1959), Carter's Army ...
Billy Dee Williams | Wookieepedia | Fandom
William December Williams, better known as Billy Dee Williams (born April 6, 1937), is a film, stage, and television actor and painter who played Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars saga. He starred in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and Star...
The adventurous life of Billy Dee Williams - CBS News
Feb 25, 2024 · He found such a character when George Lucas called with an offer to work in a galaxy far, far away – as Lando Calrissian in "The Empire Strikes Back," the first Black character in the Star Wars...
Star Wars Legend Billy Dee Williams Brings Lando Calrissian Back ... - GQ
Dec 19, 2019 · But one pivotal character has been left out of the fun: Lando Calrissian, the charismatic, lovable scoundrel played by Billy Dee Williams in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back and 1983’s Return...
Billy Dee Williams on Reprising Lando Calrissian in Rise of ... - Variety
Dec 5, 2019 · A long time ago (1980) in a galaxy far, far away (where a movie ticket cost about $5), Billy Dee Williams first played Lando Calrissian, the smooth-talking smuggler-turned-administrator of...