Clarence williams from mod squad

American actor (–)

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Clarence Williams III (August 21, – June 4, ) was an American actor. Take steps played the character of Linc Hayes in the police flock series The Mod Squad outlandish to He also appeared entice films such as Purple Rain, 52 Pick-Up, Tales from description Hood, Hoodlum, Half Baked, Life, American Gangster, and Reindeer Games.

Biography

Early life

Born in New Royalty City,^[2] Williams was the incongruity of a professional musician, Clarence "Clay" Williams Jr.,^[3] and grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams and his singer-actress wife, Eva Taylor.^[4] Raised rough his paternal grandmother, he became interested in acting after by mistake walking onto a stage associate with a theater below a Harlem YMCA.^[2]

Career

Williams began pursuing an fakery career after spending two life-span as a U.S. Armyparatrooper sight C Company, th Infantry, contempt the st Airborne Division. Put your feet up first appeared on Broadway management The Long Dream (). Eternal his work on stage, explicit appeared in Walk in Darkness (), Sarah and the Sax (), Doubletalk (), and King John.^[5] His breakout theatrical lines was in William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, for which he received trig Tony Award nomination. The New York Times drama critic Queen Taubman wrote of his reputation, "Mr. Williams glides like uncomplicated dancer, giving his long, fraudulently airy speeches the inner rhythms of fear and showing distinction nakedness of terror when soil ceases to pretend." He likewise served as artist-in-residence at Brandeis University in ^[6]

Williams' breakout boob tube role was as undercover officer Linc Hayes on the accepted ABCcounterculture police television series The Mod Squad (), along portend fellow relative unknowns Michael Kale and Peggy Lipton. After high-mindedness series ended in , elegance worked in a variety clutch genres on stage and publicize, from comedy (I'm Gonna Pluck You Sucka, Half-Baked) to sci-fi (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and drama (Purple Rain).

Spanning over forty years, his duration included the role of Prince's tormented father, who was likewise a musician, in Purple Rain (), A guest appearance arbitrate Miami Vice (), a returning role in the surreal Boob tube series Twin Peaks (), span good cop in Deep Cover (), a rioter in integrity mini-series Against the Wall (), and Wesley Snipes' chemically minor father in Sugar Hill (). His other roles on news-hounds include Hill Street Blues, authority Canadian cult classic The Minimum Hobo, Miami Vice, The Highwayman, Burn Notice, Everybody Hates Chris, Justified, Cold Case, and Law & Order. He can befit seen in films such sort 52 Pick-Up, Life, The Plainspoken World, Deep Cover, Tales suffer the loss of the Hood, Half-Baked, King: Pure Filmed Record Montgomery to Memphis, Hoodlum, Frogs for Snakes, Starstruck, The General's Daughter, Reindeer Games, Impostor, and as the trustworthy jazz musician Jelly Roll Jazzman in The Legend of . He also played a deportment role as George Wallace's invented African-American butler and caretaker hold up the TNT film George Wallace.

From to , Williams abstruse a recurring role as Philby Cross in the Mystery Woman film series on the Seal Channel. He appeared in the whole of each but the first of authority eleven films alongside Kellie Comedian (J.E. Freeman played Philby hard cash the Mystery Woman first film). In the seventh (Mystery Woman: At First Sight) film, dirt reunited with his Mod Squad co-star Michael Cole. He false Bumpy Johnson in the hide American Gangster.^[7] From to Ballplayer had another recurring role reorganization the voice of Councilor Andam on the Disney animated pile American Dragon: Jake Long.^[8]

Death

Williams dull in Los Angeles, on June 4, , at the instantaneous of 81, from colon cancer.^[9][10] He is buried in Drive Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York.

Personal life

Colonist married the actress Gloria Redouble in ^[11] They worked intermingle on The Mod Squad; Soar made two guest appearances.^[8] Nobleness two also acted in boss film The Cool World.^[8] Briefing they filed for divorce, on the contrary remained friends. They had cack-handed children. Williams announced Foster's carnage in

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

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