Over a 60-year career spanning Broadway, music, movies, and television, Billy s tales and travels include Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Henry Fonda, Duke Ellington, Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Sylvester Stallone, Diahann Carroll, and a world of less famous but no less colourful characters.

And that s just his life on this planet. As hundreds of millions of Star Wars fans worldwide know, Williams is and always will be Lando Calrissian, the double-dealing, outlandishly handsome rogue from George Lucas classic Star Wars adventures The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi, a role he reprised in 2019 s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.