Cast & creator
Dick Anthony Williams
Best known for Law & Order, JAG, The X-Files
Richard Anthony Williams (August 9, 1934 – February 16, 2012) was an American actor. Williams is best known for his starring performances on Broadway in The Poison Tree, What the Wine-Sellers Buy and Black Picture Show. Williams also had notable roles in 1970s blaxploitation films such as The Mack and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off.
Also known as: Richard Williams, Dick Williams, Dick A. Williams , Richard Anthony Williams
49
film credits
35
television credits
84
1956–2020 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (84)
Showing 84 of 84 credits
Law & Order
Sam Burdette
1990
JAG
Special Agent Lang
1995
The X-Files
Agent Reggie Purdue
1993
Chicago Hope
Charles Wilkes
1994
L.A. Law
Charles Jackson
1986L.A. Law
Franklin Hovey
1986
American Playhouse
Samuel Traylor
1982American Playhouse
Professor Carter
1982American Playhouse
Malcolm X
1982
Tony Awards
Self - Performer
1956
Ironside
1967
The Rockford Files
Maceo Prentiss
1974
The Shield
Reverend Neal Cook
2002
Cagney & Lacey
Sly
1982
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Hart to Hart
1979
Due South
ATF Agent MacFadden
1994
The Larry Sanders Show
Beverly's Father
1992
Martin
Dick Anthony Williams
1992
Lou Grant
1977
Edward Scissorhands
Officer Allen
1990
The Parent 'Hood
1995
Archie Bunker's Place
1979
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Homefront
1991
Stingray
1985
Dog Day Afternoon
Limo Driver
1975
Blood and Bone
Roberto
2009
Snoops
Andrew Devilar
1989
Heart of the City
Ed Van Duzer
1986
Roc
Ray Boyd
1991
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
Shannon's Deal
McGuire
1990
The Deep
Slake
1977
The Jerk
Taj
1979
A Woman Called Moses
John Tubman
1978
Our Family Honor
Chief of Detectives Jonas Jones
1985
One in a Million
1980
Mo' Better Blues
Big Stop Williams
1990
The Sophisticated Gents
Ralph Joplin
1981
Gardens of Stone
Slasher Williams
1987
Summer Rental
Dan Gardner
1985
The Anderson Tapes
Spencer
1971
The Star Chamber
Detective Paul Mackey
1983
King
Malcolm X
1978
Tap
Francis
1989
The Rapture
Henry
1991
Grizzly II: Revenge
Charlie
2020
The Players Club
Mr. Armstrong
1998
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Sen. Frank Radler
2000
Uptight
Corbin
1968
Cast the First Stone
Jackson Phillips
1989
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Joe Creole
1973
An Almost Perfect Affair
Jackson
1979
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Malthus
1971
Brave New World
Helmholz Watson
1980
Hot Boyz
Harold
2000
Five on the Black Hand Side
Preston
1973
The Mack
Pretty Tony
1973
A Gun in the House
Det. Frank Campbell
1981Challenge of a Lifetime
Dr. Hume
1985
Percy & Thunder
Caswell Baker
1993
The Richard Pryor Special?
Writer
1977Sparrow
Martin
1978
The Lost Man
Ronald
1969
Black Listed
Missouri
2003
Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
Self
2002
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
Through Naked Eyes
Det. Wylie
1983
Deadly Hero
District Attorney Winston
1975
This Is Kate Bennett...
Leonard Hayes
1982
Something So Right
Morris Elliot
1982
Steam
August
2007
The Night the City Screamed
Jim Downs
1980
Hollow Image
Danny
1979
The Storyteller
Anthony
1977
Sister, Sister
Rev. Richard Henderson
1982
Night Partners
Instructor
1983
Freeman
Freeman
1977
Some Kind of Miracle
Dr. Hopstone
1979
Keeping On
Samuel Taylor
1983
The Gifted
Daniel
1993
The Meeting
Malcolm X
1989
The Long Night
Paul
1976