Clarence Williams III
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1939-08-21 (82 years old)
Deathday
2021-06-04
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams III
Biography
Clarence Williams III (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021) was an American actor. Williams was the son of a professional musician, Clarence "Clay" Williams Jr., and grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams and his singer-actress wife, Eva Taylor. Raised by his paternal grandmother, he became interested in acting after accidentally walking onto a stage at a theater below a Harlem YMCA. Williams began pursuing an acting career after spending two years as a U.S. Army paratrooper in C Company, 506th Infantry, of the 101st Airborne Division. He first appeared on Broadway in The Long Dream (1960). Continuing his work on stage, he ...
Acting
2000
as Merlin
1988
as Lt. Kevin White
1997
as Bub Hewlett
1994
as Chaka
1995
as Mr. Simms (segment "Welcome to My Mortuary")
1998
as Samson Simpson
1997
as Chuck
1997
as Father Stratton
2001
as Walter Golden
1984
as Father
1995
as Benny
1994
as Arthur Romello "A.R." Skuggs
1986
as Bobby Shy
2002
as Bill
2005
as Philby
2006
as Philby
1991
as Deputy Sheriff Virgil
2005
as Philby
2013
as Maynard
2007
as Philby
2005
as Philby
2005
as Philby
2006
as Philby
1993
as Raymond
2003
as Benny
1987
as D.J. Johnson
1970
as Self (archive footage)
2006
as Philby
1993
as Dean
1963
as Blood
1998
as Jelly Roll Morton
1997
as Archie
1999
as Colonel George Fowler
1992
as Taft
2000
as Marcellus Clay
1984
as Mayhew Skinner
1996
as Coach Pratt
1996
as General Greenboro
1998
as Huck Hanley
2000
as Leron Becker
2007
as Bumpy Johnson (uncredited)
1988
as Kalinga
2005
as Philby
2009
as Mac
1990
as Blum
2006
as Philby
2009
as Sam
1987
as Bolo
1979
as Lincoln Hayes
1995
as Bryant
1998
as Jerry Wallace
2007
as Forest Boxer
1997
as Grand Daddy
2000
as Glitterman
2018
as Roscoe
1999
as Winston Hancock
1996
as Christopher, the Caretaker
2001
as Secretary of Defense (uncredited)
2003
as Zachary
1996
as Javier
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