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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Last I saw of Garrett was him in the sitcom 2 Broke Girls which ran from 2011-2017. I only watched that show for the first couple of seasons and my tv watching has dropped to zero now so anything more recent I cannot tell unless I look him up on IMDB.
RIP.
Life is playing 18 holes of golf. Takes 4 years to play each hole. I’m in the middle of my 2nd putt on the 72nd hole.
I also heard that God doesn’t count the time spent on a golf course...if true, I got that going for me...
I was not the only one.
There is a famous TV interview where SLJ goes ballistic because some journalist thought he was Linc, too.
At 75 I can vouch that.
Cool man
Phillip Michael Thomas played the role of Detective Tubbs...
Garrett Morris was in HUNTER also...He played an informant for Hunter and McCall...Sporty James...
“But his Fro was perfect!”
My neice the beauty salon owner extraordinaire, insists Linc’s ‘fro was a wig. Her argument is based on the hours it would take to maintain and that production overruns and schedule demands wouldn’t allow for that level of hair maintenance.
She has a point. I wonder?
I say shes right, although back then the very idea of a man wearing a wig would have shocked a lot of people.
Yet another reason to play more golf!
Yep! I wanted to BE Peggy Lipton. lol
RIP.
“First they broke the law, now they are the law.”
That sound like a synopsis of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”
He was great as Jelly Roll Morton in “The Legend of 1900.”
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