Dick Anthony Williams est un acteur américain né à Chicago (Illinois) le 9 août 1934, et mort à Los Angeles le 16 février 2012. Il joua notamment Jomo dans la série L'Homme de l'Atlantide.

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Born Richard Anthony Williams in Chicago, Williams had an extensive resume as an actor in films and on television. His best-known film roles include Pretty Tony in The Mack, the easy-going limo driver in Dog Day Afternoon, Denzel Washington's father in Mo' Better Blues and sympathetic Officer Allen in Edward Scissorhands. In television, he was a regular on the short-lived post World War II-era ABC primetime soap opera Homefront Abe Davis during the early 1990s. In 1996, he played the father of Larry's assistant Beverley in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show.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. Williams married Gloria Edwards, an actress, who died in 1988, and he had two children with her.
^ CLIParser at the Internet Movie Database

^ Gloria Edwards at the Internet Movie Database