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100 1 Williams, Billy Dee,|d1937-|eauthor.|enarrator.
245 10 What have we here|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] :
|bportraits of a life /|cBilly Dee Williams.
264 1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2024.
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500 Includes index.
500 Electronic audio file.
511 0 Read by Billy Dee Williams.
520 "Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight
decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted,
unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the
mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee
Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a
household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he
made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira
Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up
feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the
High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann
Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art,
before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff,
Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier. His first film role was
in The Last Angry Man, the great Paul Muni's final film.
It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him
soaring as an actor, "You can play any character you want
to play no matter who you are, no matter the way you look
or the color of your skin." And Williams writes, "I wanted
to be anyone I wanted to be." On Broadway, he acted in The
Cool World in an all-Black cast that included James Earl
Jones and Cicely Tyson, and in the original hit Broadway
production of A Taste of Honey with Angela Lansbury and a
young Joan Plowright. In 1971, he landed the role of a
lifetime: co-starring alongside James Caan in Brian's Song,
the made-for-television movie that was watched by an
audience of more than fifty million people. Williams says
it was "the kind of interracial love story America
needed." His rich and varied career included working with
producer Berry Gordy on the Billie Holiday biopic, Lady
Sings the Blues, a star vehicle for Diana Ross, then at
the height of her superstardom. He also starred in the
1977 film Scott Joplin and appeared in Tim Burton's Batman
and more recently the television series, And Just Like
That. He became a true pop culture icon when, as the first
Black character in the Star Wars universe, he played Lando
520 Calrissian in George Lucas's The Empire Strikes Back
("What I presented on the screen people didn't expect to
see"). It was a role he reprised in the final film of the
original trilogy, The Return of the Jedi, and in the
recent sequel The Rise of Skywalker. A legendary actor, in
his own words, on all that has sustained and carried him
through a lifetime of dreams and adventure"--|cProvided by
publisher.
533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cBooks on Tape|d2024
|nAvailable via World Wide Web.
600 10 Williams, Billy Dee,|d1937-
650 0 African American actors|vBiography.
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