Billy Dee Williams Discusses His Acting Career, Star Wars & More | TCMFF 2024

TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz sits down with legendary actor Billy Dee Williams at the 2024 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival to discuss his illustrious career. After getting his start on Broadway, Williams made his feature film debut in Daniel Mann’s “The Last Angry Man.” Although best known for playing Lando Calrissian in “Star Wars,” he also starred in many other iconic films, including “Brian’s Song,” “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings,” and Tim Burton’s “Batman.”
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[@filmladyproduction]

Love Billy Dee's Aura and personality.. lesson on being your true self early on, inner confidence.

[@danbaranowski]

Billy Dee Williams is an excellent actor. I love his Star Wars role of Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker (as well as his voice work of the role in various Star Wars projects [most notably Rebels]), and his role as a pre-TwoFace Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s version of Batman (a role he reprised as a voice role in The Lego Batman Movie)

[@ronniepeterson6911]

And there's good new that Billy Dee Williams was also a friend of theirs when he discusses about his movies. Ben Makiewicz talks about his life in films and also an autobiography about things he did from films to DWTS in which he hurt his knee and had a blast of a time with Karina Smirnoff or Sharna Burgess, But he was a mind of a commander in the Star Wars Trilogy and on tv in a film Brian's Song. He also in the The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars, Motor Kings, Hodlum and Tim Burton's Batman. He was in the film Action Jackson and was on TV with General Hospital: Nightshift and more He even play Billie Holliday's boyfriend and husband in Lady Sings The Blues. That interview is tape and streaming for TCM right now.

[@ryangettig274]

At Valley Forge Military Academy(where Taps-1981 was filmed)movie nite (on a Big Screen)was always a trip-a cycle of Rio Bravo,Deliverance,&Dirty Harry(probably to toughen us up),and then came Brian's Song,which really got to me & others in many ways-a heartbreaker,tearjerker,like a sandpaper that rough's up the heart♥*just like Beverly Hills Cop-A Flick completely about Friend ship.Go Easy,God Bless&Always Be Well Billy Dee Williams:)...

[@ryangettig274]

&Besides that Lando was the Only Cat in Star Wars to cut a deal with Darth Vader& The Empire-Badness:)

[@KohalaLover]

An excellent actor.

[@jeshkam]

"Nighthawks" ❤️

[@user-xd5so5qh7j]

I have one word - "Chiefs" - you were absolutely incredible and unforgettable!

[@shepardbook]

“Chiefs.” Part 3, Lando Calrissian and Willard Decker. Star Wars and Star Trek together.

[@niaboyd1620]

He still has that voice.

[@user-xd5so5qh7j]

​@@shepardbook- no - "Chiefs" was a miniseries on television, filmed in 1983. It is absolutely, without question, the best television movie that's ever been broadcast in the history of TV. It is about a series of police chiefs and a crime that is uncovered, years later. If you have never seen it, I wholeheartedly recommend it. Billy D. Williams portrayed one of the police chiefs, and he did an absolutely splendid acting job.

[@shepardbook]

@@user-xd5so5qh7j My comment was actually a bit of trivia pointing out previous roles for Billie Dee Williams (of course, Star Wars’ Lando Calrissian) and Stephen Collins (Captain/Commander Willard Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture). Way back when there was a thing called VCRs (Video Cassette Recorders), I watched and videotaped the miniseries during the first airing on CBS. Before cable became a thing, if memory serves.

[@user-xd5so5qh7j]

​@@shepardbook I'm glad you had an opportunity to see "Chiefs" - it was wonderful!

[@kevinarmandogarcialopez8270]

❤

[@eamonndeane587]

I've always thought that Lando Calarissian is cooler than Han Solo.

[@ryangettig274]

He was-A suave sophistication- without trying-like Miles Davis🎺 In Space🌌:)

[@goldenvulture6818]

I'm a loyalist to the pre-2012 Star Wars franchise

[@pfelon]

"What have we here?"