Posted on 06/06/2021 2:05:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Williams died in Los Angeles on Friday June 4, 2021 of colon cancer, his management confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
Williams began his career on the stage and earned a Tony nomination in 1965 for best featured actor in a play for his work in the powerful three-person drama Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. Decades later, he returned to Broadway to star opposite Maggie Smith in the original 1979 production Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day.
On the big screen, the Harlem native portrayed Prince’s troubled father in Purple Rain (1984) and was Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright’s drug-addled dad in Sugar Hill (1993). In Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Legend of 1900 (1998), Williams tapped into his family’s musical roots to appear as jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton.
Known for his prodigious afro and gap-toothed smile, Williams also worked regularly with famed director John Frankenheimer, first on Elmore Leonard’s 52 Pick-Up (1986) and then on The General’s Daughter (1999), Reindeer Games (2000) and two telefilms, the Attica-set Against the Wall in 1994 and George Wallace in 1997.
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Brother and I were sharing about people back home we grew up with.....couldn’t believe how many died already...only in 50’s and 60’s!
You said a mouthful there FRiend ;)
“Git”.
Even when an actor is an a long running, popular series, that doesn’t mean he will keep being top drawer famous forever.
I think that was likely the best and most lucrative role Clarence ever got. He was perfectly cast.
“I was a STUDENT!”
Anyone that watches Hallmark will remember him from the Mystery Woman Series of Movies.
“81 is just about the average life expectancy for males these days. Women are 1 or 2 years more.”
Apparently that depends on where you live.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-1-508.pdf
Geez, I only have 9 years left.
He died of colon cancer?
Didn’t Peggy Lipton die of the same disease?
Not sure the verse but it’s in the Bible that we are granted 70 years (three score and ten). Anything beyond that and one is playing with house money.
Yes indeed. I live in Canada and it’s a little bit higher than the US average. As many a Freeper says your mileage may vary.
Back in the day, Peggy Lipton was easily one of the most stunning actresses of that time...at least in my eyes
A few fun facts...
Peggy Lipton was married to jazz legend Quincy Jones and they had two daughters - Rashida and Kidada - who also became actresses.
Rashida Jones has been in series “The Office”, “Parks and Recreation”, “Angie Tribeca”, among others.
Quincy Jones produced albums for Frank Sinatra as well as polishing michel jackson’s album, “Thriller”
It depends a lot more on whether you have modern stint work available, they have practically made open heart vein/artery transplants obsolete.
If anyone is fishing around for entertaining, inspiring though ‘light’ reading, I reccommend a book by Peggy Lipton’s ex husband aka Quincy Jones.
The Autobiography of Quincy Jones.
Quincy has had an amazing life and influenced so many top tier American musicians.
He played a hell of a devil in Tales from the Hood. Thug wannabes should watch it.
he did Purple Rain but I think he was the only black actor to miss being in Roots!
RIP, Linc. :)
“Cologuard is quite accurate in detecting if you have colon cancer but only about 42% accurate in detecting if you have polpys. Polyp removal is the key to colon cancer prevention so Cologuard could end up falling short in this area.”
https://www.franciscanhealth.org/community/blog/cologuard-vs-colonscopy-know-the-differences
“The majority of large precancerous polyps cannot be detected with Cologuard.”
“The best way to prevent colon cancer is by identifying and removing precancerous polyps that don’t turn into cancer later.”
“The cost of Cologuard is around $500....Diagnostic testing is subject to deductibles and coinsurance.”
“Screening colonoscopies are not subject to copays and deductibles and usually have no out of pocket costs for patients.”
https://www.gastroconsa.com/the-truth-about-cologuard-tests/
81 is a decent run. Rest In Peace.
One white, one black, one blond.
Solid
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