Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor and novelist. He appeared as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise, first in the early 1980s for The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), and thirty-six years later in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), marking one of the longest intervals between onscreen portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history. Williams was born in New York City, and raised with his twin sister Loretta in Harlem. In 1945, he made his Broadway theatre debut at age seven in The Firebrand of Florence. He later graduated from The 
Title: Star Wars (radio series)
Content:  Billy Dee Williams reprised Lando Calrissian, and John Lithgow played Yoda at the same time Madden was directing Lithgow in the play Beyond Therapy. Hamill and Daniels returned to voice Skywalker and C-3PO. • Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker • Perry King as Han Solo • Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa • Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian • Bernard Behrens as Obi-Wan Kenobi • Brock Peters as Darth Vader • John Lithgow as Yoda • Anthony Daniels as C-3PO • James Eckhouse as Beta • Peter Friedman as Dak • Ron Frazier as Deck Officer • Merwin Goldsmith as General Rieekan • Peter Michael Goetz as Admiral Ozzel • Gordon Gould as General Veers • Paul Hecht as The Emperor • Russell Horton as 2-1B • James Hurdle as Controller • Nicholas Kepros as Captain Needa • David Rasche as Admiral Piett • Alan Rosenberg as Boba Fett • Jay O. Sanders as Imperial Pilot • Don Scardino as Wedge Antilles The supporting cast again included David Alan Grier and also included Sam McMurray, Steven Markle, Stephen D. Newman, John Pielmeier, Geoffrey Pierson, Gary Tacon, and Jerry Zaks. Ken Hiller provides the narration.
Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  Williams was cast as Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), becoming the first African-American actor with a major role in the Star Wars series. J. J. Abrams, who would direct Williams in the ninth installment film in 2019, noted, "Lando was always written as a complex, contradictory, nuanced character. And Billy Dee played him to suave perfection, ... It wasn't just that people of color were seeing themselves represented; they were seeing themselves represented in a rich, wonderful, intriguing way." He would reprise the role in Return of the Jedi (1983). Between the latter two films, he starred alongside Sylvester Stallone as a cop in 
Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  Sings the Blues (1972) and Mahogany (1975), both starring Williams paired with Diana Ross, and Nighthawks (1981). In the 1980s, he was cast in his most enduring role as Lando Calrissian, becoming the first African-American actor with a major on-screen role in the Star Wars franchise, in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). He also voiced Lando in video games, animated series, and the National Public Radio adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back. He was inducted into the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame in 1984, and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985. Another franchise relationship started with Batman (1989), 
Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  Williams voiced Lando Calrissian in the video game Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Battlefront as well as the spin-off Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron. However, the Battlefront appearances were archive footage and his voice-appearance in Elite Squadron is left uncredited or unknown. He also played a live-action character, GDI Director Redmond Boyle, in the game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, which was released in March 2007. This made him the second former Star Wars actor to appear in a Command & Conquer game, with the first being James Earl Jones as GDI General James Solomon in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Williams voiced Lando Calrissian in 2015's Star Wars: Battlefront for the DLC pack Bespin and its 2017 sequel Star Wars Battlefront II. In the 2016 game Let It Die, Williams voices Colonel Jackson, who acts as the second major boss players face.
Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  thriller Nighthawks (1981). The charm of his role as Lando Calrissian proved to be popular with audiences. Williams has voiced the character in the 2002 video game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, the audio dramatization of Dark Empire, the National Public Radio adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, two productions for the Star Wars: Battlefront series, The Lego Movie, and in two episodes of the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels. Some fans were disappointed with Calrissian's absence from the first film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Force Awakens, but in July 2018 it was announced that he would reprise his role in The Rise 
Title: Billy Dee Williams filmography
Content:  This is the filmography for American actor Billy Dee Williams. He has appeared in 47 films, and numerous television roles. He played Lando Calrissian in three Star Wars films, and Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's Batman. He is also well-known for roles in The Last Angry Man, Carter's Army, The Out-of-Towners, The Final Comedown, Lady Sings the Blues, Hit!, Mahogany, Scott Joplin, Nighthawks, Fear City, Terror in the Aisles, Alien Intruder, The Visit, The Ladies Man, Fanboys and The Lego Movie. He was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for the TV movie Brian's Song.
Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  In 2008, Williams reprised his role as Lando Calrissian to appear in a video on Funny or Die in a mock political ad defending himself for leader of the Star Wars galaxy against vicious attack ads from Emperor Palpatine. Williams is currently a cast member of Diary of a Single Mom, a web-based original series directed by award-winning filmmaker Robert Townsend. The series debuted on PIC.tv in 2009.
Title: Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
Content: Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, the former Administrator of Cloud City turned general in the Rebel Alliance. He works with Chewbacca in the absence of Han Solo. ; Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker, an X-wing pilot in the Rebel Alliance and Jedi-in-training. As The Freemaker Adventures takes place after The Empire Strikes Back, Luke appears in his attire from Return of the Jedi and wields his green lightsaber. ; Julie Dolan as Princess Leia Organa, the princess of the now-destroyed planet of Alderaan and a leader in the Rebel Alliance. ; Trevor Devall as Admiral Ackbar, the Mon Calamari fleet admiral of the Rebel Alliance. ; Yvette Nicole Brown as Lt. Valeria, a fighter pilot for the Rebel Alliance. (season 2) ; Vanessa Marshall as Hera Syndulla, a Twi'Lek pilot and general in the Rebel Alliance. Her droid Chopper also appears. (season 2) ; Corey Burton as Quarrie, an elderly Mon Calamari and an experienced ship builder and mechanic, responsible for the creation of the B-Wing in Star Wars: Rebels, who becomes Rowan's mentor. (season 2) 
Title: Billy Dee Williams
Content:  the hit sketch comedy show In Living Color in 1990. He portrayed Pastor Dan in an episode of That '70s Show. In this episode, "Baby Don't You Do It" (2004), his character is obsessed with Star Wars, and uses this to help counsel Eric Forman (himself a Star Wars fan) and Donna Pinciotti about his premarital relationship. Williams made a cameo appearance as himself on the television series Lost in the episode "Exposé". He also appears regularly on short clips on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a semi-parody of himself. In February 2006, Williams guest starred as himself in the season 5 episode "Her Story II" 

Question: what character did billy d williams play in star wars?
Answer: Lando Calrissian.