Actor Dick Anthony Williams dies

Actor Dick Anthony Williams, who came Tony nominations for "Black Picture Show" and "Just what the Wine-Merchants Buy" inside the seventies and was famous for his portrayals of Malcolm X both onstage and also on television, died Thursday, Feb. 16, in Van Nuys, Calif. He was 77. Throughout the time of four years beginning in 1972, Williams starred on Broadway in five shows, including "Ain't Made to Die an all-natural Dying," "We Interrupt The ProgramInch and "The Poison Tree." He will be a co-founding father from the completely new Federal Theater in NY. Later he carried out Malcolm X onstage in lots of productions of Rob Stetson's play "The Meeting" -- after you have carried out the African-American leader inside the 1978 NBC miniseries "King," about Martin Luther King Junior. (More youthful crowd reprised the role when "The Meeting" was presented on PBS in 1989.) His theater work also incorporated pointing and starring in "Hugely Buck White-colored" in the production staged in W just before the show's go to NY. Inside the seventies Williams came out in supporting roles in films for instance "Slaughter's Large Rip-Off" and "Five round the Black Hands Side" film credits also incorporated "Dog Day Mid-day," "The Jerk," "The Star Chamber," "Gardens of Stone," "Mo' Better Blues," "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Rapture," which he ongoing to accomplish bigscreen work to the 2000s. Round the smallscreen he will be a steady presence from his 1968 debut on "Dragnet" until his 2002 appearance on two cases of "The Shield" since the Rev. Neal Prepare. Among he recurred on ABC's "Us Recognition" in 1985-86 will be a regular round the network's series "Heart in the City" in 1986 and "Homefront" in 1991 and guested on shows including "Nanny as well as the Professor," "Ironside," "Starsky and Hutch," "The Rockford Files," "The Jeffersons," "Lou Grant," "L.A. Law," "Roc," "The X-Files," "Law and Order," "Chicago Hope" and "NYPD Blue." He was among the stars in the made-for-PBS play "Freeman," directed by Lloyd Richards and came out in Harriet Tubman telepic "A Girl Referred to as Moses." Born in Chicago, Williams needed up acting attending school. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com