# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-dee-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:21.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-dee-williams"
name: "Billy Dee Williams"
slug: "billy-dee-williams"
description: "William December Williams Jr., known as Billy Dee Williams, is an American actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades. He is best known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as 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 (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), The Final Comedown and Lady Sings the Blues, Hit! (1973), Fear City and Terror in the Aisles, Alien Intruder (1993) and The Visit (2000)."
tagline: "American actor (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Dee_Williams_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1937-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump