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Dick Anthony Williams (August 9, 1934 – February 16, 2012) was an American actor. Williams is known for his starring performances on Broadway in The Poison Tree, What the Wine-Sellers Buy and Black Picture Show. He is also remembered for playing the character of Pretty Tony in The Mack, which starred Max Julien and Richard Pryor and portrayed Denzel Washington's father in Mo' Better Blues. Williams won the 1974 Drama Desk Award for his performance in What the Wine-Sellers Buy, for which he was also nominated for a Tony Award, and was nominated in 1975 for both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in Black Picture Show He also had an extensive resume as an actor in films and on television. He was a regular on the short-lived post World War II-era ABC primetime soap opera Homefront as Abe Davis during the early 1990s.
Williams married Gloria Edwards, an actress, who died in 1988, and he had two children with her.
Williams also starred in a documentary film "The Meeting", about two African-American political leaders (Malcolm X and Martin L. King, Jr.) discussing the fate of black people in America. This documentary is very difficult to locate. Any knowledge on this film would be greatly appreciated.
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Plot: This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
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