Dick Anthony Williams
Also Known As: Richard Williams, Dick Williams, Dick A. Williams , Richard Anthony Williams
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: August 09, 1934
Deathday: February 16, 2012
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Gender: Male
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Edward Scissorhands
Overview: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Freeman
Overview: This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who is not understood by those closest to him and who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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The Rapture
Overview: A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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The Deep
Overview: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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The Jerk
Overview: After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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Blood and Bone
Overview: In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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The Anderson Tapes
Overview: Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-17
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The Star Chamber
Overview: As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Gardens of Stone
Overview: A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-05
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The Mack
Overview: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Grizzly II: Revenge
Overview: All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [This sequel to "Grizzly" (1976) was left unfinished after production wrapped prematurely in 1983, and was not officially released until 2020, though a bootleg workprint version had been in circulation for some years prior to this.]
Genres: Horror Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-17
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Brave New World
Overview: A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Hot Boyz
Overview: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-15
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The Players Club
Overview: Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Slaughter's Big Rip Off
Overview: Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-31
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An Almost Perfect Affair
Overview: An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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The Lost Man
Overview: A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-11
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Steam
Overview: Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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The Long Night
Overview: Steely Brown, a young boy living in Harlem, wanders the streets of the city one night, reflecting on what led to the disappearance of his father. Meeting the denizens of his neighborhood, he engages in conversations that begin to sketch the outlines of the enigma, invoking Vietnam, marital discord, paternal relationships, substance abuse, schooling and unemployment—in short, the life of an American family.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Through Naked Eyes
Overview: A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-11
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Deadly Hero
Overview: Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-14
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A Gun in the House
Overview: A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent on making an example of her case.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Overview: This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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Percy & Thunder
Overview: A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-07
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This Is Kate Bennett...
Overview: In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter whose life is imperiled, along with that of her young daughter Jennifer, after she doggedly pursues the story of a sniper attack on several nurses.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Overview: While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-02
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Five on the Black Hand Side
Overview: Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Overview: A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-11
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Some Kind of Miracle
Overview: The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have to adjust to his being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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Dog Day Afternoon
Overview: Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-21
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The Storyteller
Overview: A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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The Richard Pryor Special?
Overview: Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada and others are taping their own segments.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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Mackin’ Ain’t Easy
Overview: Produced for "The Mack" Special Edition DVD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Cast the First Stone
Overview: After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-13
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Mo' Better Blues
Overview: Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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The Night the City Screamed
Overview: A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-14
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Sister, Sister
Overview: Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-07
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The Gifted
Overview: Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic powers by good aliens to counterbalance the effects of Ogo, a bad alien intent on taking over Earth and killing all life to remake the planet for his own purposes. Descendents of the tribe who inherit the psychic powers are given an ancient book to read and pass on. Every 32 years, in connection with the orbiting of the star Sirius B, Ogo returns to kill a few more of the psychics in his ongoing bid for power.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Uptight
Overview: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Summer Rental
Overview: Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-09
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Tap
Overview: Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instructor, is less than thrilled to see him. Her father, Little Mo, is happy to see him, because he has plans for a show involving Max. In addition, Max's old partners in crime have another job for him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-12
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Keeping On
Overview: A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-08
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Night Partners
Overview: Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-11
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Challenge of a Lifetime
Overview: Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-14
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The Meeting
Overview: Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-03
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Hollow Image
Overview: A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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Something So Right
Overview: Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-30
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