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His real name has been cited as either Craig Castaldo or Craig Schwartz, although he is known as "Radioman" for the radio which he wears around his neck. He has made cameos in ''30 Rock'', ''The Departed'', ''Just My Luck'', ''Romance & Cigarettes'', ''Elf'', ''Two Weeks Notice'', ''Glitter'', ''Keeping the Faith'', ''Godzilla'', ''Ransom'', ''Big Daddy'', ''Little Nicky'', ''Mr. Deeds'', and other films and television shows.
According to his website, Radioman used to be homeless. He is famous around New York and has been written about in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Out, the New York Daily News, and more. Whoopi Goldberg has taken him to the Oscars as her guest one of the years she hosted.
A documentary film about Radioman entitled ''Radioman'' is currently being produced by Ten Cent Adventures and set to be released in 2011.
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birth name | William December Williams, Jr. |
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birth date | April 06, 1937 |
birth place | New York City, New York, United States |
occupation | Actor, artist, singer, writer |
years active | 1959–present |
spouse | }} |
In 1972, he played Billie Holliday's husband Louis McKay in Motown Productions' Holiday biopic ''Lady Sings the Blues''. Diana Ross starred in ''Lady Sings the Blues'' opposite Williams; Motown paired the two of them again three years later in ''Mahogany.''
His most widely recognized role is that of Lando Calrissian, which he played in ''Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' and in ''Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi''. He reprised this role when he lent his voice for the character in the 2002 video game ''Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast,'' as well as the audio dramatization of ''Dark Empire'', the National Public Radio adaptation of ''Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'', and two productions for the Star Wars Battlefront series: ''Star Wars Battlefront II'' and ''Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron''. (However, the appearance in Battlefront II was archive footage and it is unknown whether it was him or another actor in the role of Calrissian in Elite Squadron however he appears through Archive footage for that games full-motion sequences). He appeared in the 1989 ''Batman'' film as district attorney Harvey Dent, a role that was planned to develop into Dent's alter-ego, the villain Two-Face, in sequels (including a pay or play contract that would have guaranteed Williams the chance to play Two-Face). That never came to pass; Williams was set to reprise the role in a more villainous light in the sequel, ''Batman Returns'', but his character was deleted and replaced with original villain Max Shreck. When Joel Schumacher stepped in to direct ''Batman Forever'', where Two-Face was to be a secondary villain, Schumacher decided to pay Williams' penalty fee to hire Tommy Lee Jones for the part.
Williams was paired with actress Marla Gibbs on three different TV shows: ''The Jeffersons'' (Gibbs's character, Florence, had a crush on Williams and challenged him on everything because she thought he was an impostor); ''227'' (her character, Mary, pretending to be royalty, met Williams at a banquet); and ''The Hughleys'' (Gibbs and Williams portrayed Darryl's parents).
In 1992, he portrayed Berry Gordy in ''The Jacksons: An American Dream''.
In 1993, Williams had a guest appearance on the spin off to ''The Cosby Show'', ''A Different World'' as Langston Paige, a grumpy landlord.
Williams made a special guest appearance on the hit sketch comedy show, ''In Living Color,'' in 1990. He portrayed Pastor Dan in an episode of ''That '70s Show.''. In this episode entitled "Baby Don't You Do It" (2004), his character is obsessed with ''Star Wars,'' and uses this to help counsel Eric Forman (himself a major "Star Wars" fan) and Donna Pinciotti about their premarital relationship.
Williams made a cameo appearance as himself on the TV series ''Lost'' in the episode "Exposé". He also appears regularly on short clips on the ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' as a semi-parody of himself.
He played Toussaint Dubois for ''General Hospital: Night Shift'' in 2007 and 2008. Williams reprised his role as Toussaint on ''General Hospital'' itself beginning in June 2009.
In July 2010, Williams appeared in the animated series ''The Boondocks'', where he voiced a fictionalized version of himself in the episode "The Story of Lando Freeman".
In February 2011, Williams appeared as a guest star on USA Network's ''White Collar'' as Ford, an old friend of Neal Caffrey's landlady June, played by Diahann Carroll.
First to Audrey Sellers, with whom he had a son Corey (b. 1960). They were divorced some years later, after which he apparently became quite depressed. ".... there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed, my first marriage was on the rocks."
Williams was briefly married to actress Marlene Clark in the late 1960s, and divorced in 1971.
He married Teruko Nakagami on December 27, 1972. She brought a daughter, Miyako (b. 1962), from her previous marriage to musician Wayne Shorter. They have a daughter Hanako (b. 1973). They filed for divorce in 1993, but were reported to have reconciled in 1997.
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name | Olia Tira |
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background | solo_singer |
born | August 01, 1988 |
origin | Potsdam, East Germany |
genre | Pop, Soul |
occupation | Singer |
years active | 2002–present |
associated acts | SunStroke Project |
website | }} |
Tira attended school in Cahul and is currently a student in the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chişinău.
Tira's first album, ''Your Place or Mine?'', was released in December 2006 by Nordika Multimedia. The songs were all written by Ruslan Taranu.
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