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“All of this is escapism, fantasy,” he told TV Guide in 1970, early in the run of “The Mod Squad.” “This is what the box is about.” Williams often contended that he didn’t take being a role model that seriously. He is survived by his daughter, Jamey Phillips, and his sister, Sondra Pugh. Williams married Gloria Foster, a stage actress who appeared twice on “The Mod Squad” and later played the Oracle in “The Matrix.” They divorced in 1984.
His last film was “American Nightmares” (2018), a horror comedy. His other film roles included a much-too-loyal aide-de-camp in “The General’s Daughter” (1999), a glowering criminal who is set on fire in “Reindeer Games” (2000), an old-school crime lord in “American Gangster” (2007) and a White House servant’s older mentor in Lee Daniels’s “The Butler” (2013). He did guest appearances on close to 40 series, from “Hill Street Blues” to “Empire.”
operative in 10 “Mystery Woman” movies (2003-07). He was a leader of the Attica prison riots in HBO’s “ Against the Wall” (1994) a segregationist governor’s manservant in the mini-series “George Wallace” (1997) Muhammad Ali’s father in “Ali: An American Hero” (2000) and a retired C.I.A. He had small roles in the blaxploitation parody “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” (1988) and in Norman Mailer’s “Tough Guys Don’t Dance” (1987). He was a crazed blackmailer in John Frankenheimer’s “52 Pick-Up” (1986) and a wild-eyed storytelling mortician in “ Tales From the Hood” (1995). He played Prince’s abusive father in “Purple Rain” (1984) and Wesley Snipes’s heroin-addicted father in “Sugar Hill” (1993). He returned to Broadway, appearing as an African head of state, with Maggie Smith, in a Tom Stoppard drama, “Night and Day” (1979).īeginning in the 1980s, he had a busy film career. Williams dropped out of sight for a while, expressing disappointment in the kinds of roles available to Black men.
Diahann Carroll starred in the sitcom “Julia” three years later - the same season that “The Mod Squad” began.Īfter the show ended, Mr. Cosby was the first Black actor to win a leading role in a prime-time American series, “I Spy,” beginning in 1965. Spelling, who was casting “The Mod Squad” at the time. Cosby saw him on the New York stage and recommended him to Mr. He owed his screen career to Bill Cosby, then a rising star.
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