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Clarence Williams III (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021) was an American actor. He played the character of Linc Hayes in the police television series The Mod Squad from 1968 to 1973. He also appeared in films such as Purple Rain, 52 Pick-Up, Tales from the Hood, Hoodlum, Half Baked, Life, American Gangster and Reindeer Games.

Biography

Early life

Born in New York City, Williams was the son of a professional musician, Clarence "Clay" Williams Jr., and grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams and his singer-actress wife, Eva Taylor. Raised by his paternal grandmother, he became interested in acting after accidentally walking onto a stage at a theater below a Harlem YMCA.

Career

Williams began pursuing an acting career after spending two years as a U.S. Army paratrooper in C Company, 506th Infantry, of the 101st Airborne Division. He first appeared on Broadway in The Long Dream (1960). Continuing his work on stage, he appeared in Walk in Darkness (1963), Sarah and the Sax (1964), Doubletalk (1964), and King John. His breakout theatrical role was in William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. The New York Times drama critic Howard Taubman wrote of his performance, "Mr. Williams glides like a dancer, giving his long, fraudulently airy speeches the inner rhythms of fear and showing the nakedness of terror when he ceases to pretend." He also served as artist-in-residence at Brandeis University in 1966.

Williams' breakout television role was as undercover cop Linc Hayes on the popular ABC counterculture police television series The Mod Squad (1968), along with fellow relative unknowns Michael Cole and Peggy Lipton. After the series ended in 1973, he worked in a variety of genres on stage and screen, from comedy (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Half-Baked) to sci-fi (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and drama (Purple Rain).

Spanning over forty years, his career included the role of Prince's tormented father, who was also a musician, in Purple Rain (1984), A guest appearance in Miami Vice (1985), a recurring role in the surreal TV series Twin Peaks (1990), a good cop in Deep Cover (1992), a rioter in the mini-series Against the Wall (1994), and Wesley Snipes' chemically dependent father in Sugar Hill (1993). His other roles on television include Hill Street Blues, the Canadian cult classic The Littlest Hobo, Miami Vice, The Highwayman, Burn Notice, Everybody Hates Chris, Justified, Cold Case, and Law & Order. He can be seen in films such as 52 Pick-Up, Life, The Cool World, Deep Cover, Tales from the Hood, Half-Baked, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, Hoodlum, Frogs for Snakes, Starstruck, The General's Daughter, Reindeer Games, Impostor, and as the early jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton in The Legend of 1900. He also played a supporting role as George Wallace's fictional African-American butler and caretaker in the 1997 TNT film George Wallace.

From 2003 to 2007, Williams had a recurring role as Philby Cross in the Mystery Woman film series on the Hallmark Channel. He appeared in all but the first of the eleven films alongside Kellie Martin (J.E. Freeman played Philby in the Mystery Woman first film). In the seventh (Mystery Woman: At First Sight) film, he reunited with his Mod Squad co-star Michael Cole. He played Bumpy Johnson in the film American Gangster. From 2005 to 2007 Williams had another recurring role as the voice of Councilor Andam on the Disney animated series American Dragon: Jake Long.

Death

Williams died in Los Angeles on June 4, 2021, from colon cancer at the age of 81. He is buried in St Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York.

Personal life

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Foster and Williams in The Mod Squad episode in 1970. Foster guest-starred as a blind friend of Linc Hayes.

Williams married the actress Gloria Foster in 1967. They worked together on The Mod Squad; Foster made two guest appearances. The two also acted in a 1964 film The Cool World. In 1984 they filed for divorce, but remained friends. They had no children. Williams announced Foster's death in 2001.

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1963	The Cool World	Blood
1984	Purple Rain	Father
1986	52 Pick-Up	Bobby Shy
1988	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	Kalinga
1991	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	Virgil
1992	Deep Cover	Detective Taft
1994	Sugar Hill	Arthur Romello "A.R." Skuggs
1995	Tales from the Hood	Mr. Simms
1997	Hoodlum	"Bub" Hewlett
1998	The Legend of 1900	"Jelly Roll" Morton
1998	Half Baked	Samson Simpson
1998	Starstruck	Jarry Wallace
1999	Life	Winston Hancock
1999	The General’s Daughter	Colonel George Fowler
2000	Reindeer Games	"Merlin"
2001	Blue Hill Avenue	Benny
2003	The Extreme Team	Zachary
2005	Constellation	Forest Boxer
2007	The Blue Hour	Ridley
2007	American Gangster	Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson	Uncredited
2009	The Way of War	Mac
2009	A Day in the Life	Sam
2013	The Butler	Maynard
2018	American Nightmares	Roscoe	Final film role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968–1973	The Mod Squad	Lincoln "Linc" Hayes	Main role, 123 episodes
1979	The Littlest Hobo	David	Episode: "Boy on Wheels"
1983	Hill Street Blues	Lester Minley	Episode: "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow"
1984	T J Hooker	Martin	Episode: “Deadlock”
1985	Miami Vice	Maximilian "Legba" Ildefonse	Episode: "Tale of the Goat"
1985	The Cosby Show	Mr. Thornhill	Episode: "Cliff's Birthday"
1990	Twin Peaks	FBI Agent Roger Hardy	3 episodes
1992	Tales from the Crypt	Security Guard	Episode: "Maniac at Large" Season 4, Episode 10
1994	Against the Wall	Chaka	Television film
1996	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Omet'iklan	Episode: "To the Death"
2000	Law & Order	Latiff Miller	Episode: "Burn, Baby, Burn"
2003	Fastlane	Mr. Hayes	Episodes: "Overkill", "Dosed"
2005–2007	American Dragon: Jake Long	Councilor Andam	Recurring voice role
2005	Everybody Hates Chris	Tate	Episode: "Everybody Hates Basketball"
2005	Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2005	Mystery Woman: Snapshot	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2005	Mystery Woman: Sing Me A Murder	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2005	Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2005	Mystery Woman: Game Time	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2006	Mystery Woman: At First Sight	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2006	Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2006	Mystery Woman: Oh Baby	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2006	Mystery Woman: Redemption	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2007	Mystery Woman: In the Shadows	Philby	Television film (Hallmark)
2009	Burn Notice	Jean Pierre's Father	Episode "Truth and Reconciliation"
2009	Cold Case	Henry "Pops" Walters	Episode "Officer Down"
2010	Justified	Mr. Jones	Episode: "Long in the Tooth"
2010	Memphis Beat	Leroy Hitch	Episode: "I Shall Not Be Moved"
2015	Empire	Huey Jarvis	Episode: "True Love Never"

External links

• Clarence Williams III at AllMovie
• Шаблон:IMDb name
• Шаблон:Discogs artist
• Шаблон:FAG