Best Movies of Billy Dee Williams
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $290.16M Lead Role: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, | Director: Irvin Kershner, After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Master Yoda. His friends accept shelter from a questionable ally as Darth Vader hunts them in a plan to capture Luke. |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 53 | Earnings: $309.13M Lead Role: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, | Director: Richard Marquand, After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy a more powerful Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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Nighthawks (1981)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, | Director: Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge. |
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Today Will Be Yesterday Tomorrow (2003)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Matt Kalman, Sarah Zoe Canner, Billy Dee Williams, Phillip Ristaino, | Director: Alex Goldberg, College friends Max and Martin were stars as actors in college, and make the move to New York to face their imminent stardom. However, reality brings their dreams to a grinding halt, as ... |
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Constellation (2005)| Imdb: 3 | Metascore: 41 | Earnings: $0.31M Lead Role: Gabrielle Union, Billy Dee Williams, Zoe Saldana, Daniel Bess, | Director: Jordan Walker-Pearlman, A painter living in exile returns home where his family endured generations of racial violence. There he begins to fantasize the people around him as a series of portraits in order to bury the pain and find something beautiful to feel. |
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The Ladies Man (2000)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 22 | Earnings: $13.59M Lead Role: Tim Meadows, Karyn Parsons, Billy Dee Williams, John Witherspoon, | Director: Reginald Hudlin, The Saturday Night Live character gets a big screen treatment. |
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $9.60M Lead Role: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, | Director: Sidney J. Furie, The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday. |
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Marvin & Tige (1983)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: John Cassavetes, Billy Dee Williams, Gibran Brown, Denise Nicholas, | Director: Eric Weston, Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower who has seen better days and now ekes out a living at odd jobs, meets Tige, an 11-year-old black boy about to kill himself because his mother has just died.... |
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson, | Director: John Badham, Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's. |
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Mahogany (1975)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Aumont, | Director: Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ... |
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Hit! (1973)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles, | Director: Sidney J. Furie, A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... |
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The Take (1974)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Sorrell Booke, | Director: Robert Hartford-Davis, Crime fighter Terry Sneed arrives in New Mexico to help out a local police chief - but he's already taking money from the underworld. |
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The Final Comedown (1972)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, D'Urville Martin, Celia Milius, Ed Cambridge, | Director: Oscar Williams, Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs. |
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Fear City (1984)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, | Director: Abel Ferrara, Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again. |
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The Prince (1996)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, Michael Riley, Tom Billett, Earl Boen, | Director: Pinchas Perry, A young executive in a toy company is dangerously close to being fired. He meets a mysterious man who teaches him how to manipulate others and soon the young man is a shark on the top of ... |
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Blood Lines (2014)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, Lynn Whitfield, Pascal Atuma, Tangi Miller, | Director: Pascal Atuma, The story of the consequences when you mix business with pleasure. When love, betrayal and business collide it produces tension soaked drama and possible catastrophe. Stanley who is a ... |
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Number One with a Bullet (1987)| Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $0.41M Lead Role: Robert Carradine, Billy Dee Williams, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves, | Director: Jack Smight, A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department. |
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Deadly Illusion (1987)| Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $0.63M Lead Role: Billy Dee Williams, Vanity, Morgan Fairchild, John Beck, | Director: A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit. |
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Mask of Death (1996)| Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Lorenzo Lamas, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Conrad Dunn, | Director: David Mitchell, While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies ... |
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Moving Target (1996)| Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Michael Dudikoff, Ardon Bess, Michelle Johnson, Billy Dee Williams, | Director: Damian Lee, A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters. |
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