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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“Hot soup, mutha——, hot soup!”
Im aiming for the three score and ten.....
He was great.
As my GP said, you’re on the 15th tee..... I told him I intend to play 27!
WilliAms Made the transition to character actor. Not many do..... whatever happeneD to Garrett Morris?! Philip whatshisname from Miami Vice!?
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I wanted Keenan Ivory Wayans to do a comedy movie featuring his character Frenchie (nemesis to Janice, Benny and others).
Key and Peele continued the Wayans satirical work on their show.
He was very good in the “Mystery Woman” series on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. I saw every one.
Here's a couple of albums he produced and/or arranged...including polishing "Thriller" into a huge commercial success.
Jones worked with the giants in the music industry as well as involved in soundtracks for so many movies and TV shows
Me too! I watch it everytime they run it. There’s another one with Kellie Martin too, I think that series was before Mystery Woman. Can’t remember the name of it offhand though. Anyway it was pretty good too.
There is a little three paragraph tidbit in the book describing Quincy and singer Freda Payne havin’ a ‘thing’ goin on for a while until the Missus walked in on them. I had never had about it before.
Lol, I think of the scene when Jim Brown gets shot in his bunion.
Some time ago I read on the internet (so it had to be true) that Quincy was introduced to heroin by Miles Davis or Ray Charles - can’t recall which one.
Bottom line, Jones gets credit for kicking that satanic habit.
I just looked up Peggy Lipton - she also died of colon cancer. Diagnosed in 2004 - died 2019. Life is too short.
“CRAAAAAMMMPS!!!”
They were the ‘coolest’. I wanted to be Julie so bad ha! a 10 year old with braces and lanky legs!
WOW - I guess I need to move to CA.....or Hawaii.
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