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Clarence Williams III

Clarence Williams III

Highest Rated:
100% The Cool World (1963)
Lowest Rated:
0% Constellation (2005)
Birthday:
Aug 21, 1939
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
The son of a musician, African American actor Clarence Williams III was raised by his grandmother. While attending his local YMCA branch as a teenager, Williams became interested in dramatics. After a two-year hitch with the Air Force, he began his acting career, making his New York debut in 1960's…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 51
Box Office Since 2001: $130.3M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2007 Day in the Life
  • Sam
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2007 80% American Gangster
  • Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson
$130.1M
2007 The Blue Hour
  • Actor
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2006 Mystery Woman: Oh Baby
  • Actor
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2006 Mystery Woman: Redemption
  • Actor
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2005 0% Constellation
  • Forrest Boxer
$0.2M
2005 Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend
  • Actor
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2005 Mystery Woman: Snapshot
  • Actor
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2005 Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
  • Philby
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2004 Ritual
  • Actor
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2002 45% Happy Here and Now
  • Bill
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2001 Bluehill Avenue
  • Benny
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2001 Mindstorm
  • Actor
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2000 25% Reindeer Games (Deception)
  • Merlin
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2000 Ali: An American Hero
  • Marcellus Clay
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2000 Ritual
  • Leron Becker
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2000 Malicious Intent
  • Actor
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1999 22% The General's Daughter
  • Col. George Fowler
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1999 50% Life
  • Winston Hancock
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1998 29% Half Baked
  • Samson Simpson
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1998 54% The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano)
  • Jelly Roll Morton
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1998 27% Frogs For Snakes
  • Huck
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1998 Starstruck
  • Jarry Wallace
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1998 Last Rites
  • Actor
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1997 22% Sprung
  • Grand Daddy
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1997 40% The Brave
  • Father Stratton
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1997 45% Hoodlum
  • Bub Hewlett
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1997 The Love Bug
  • Actor
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1996 Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault
  • Actor
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1996 The Silencers
  • General Greenboro
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1996 74% Primal Fear
  • Actor
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1995 38% Tales from the Hood
  • Mr. Simms
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1995 The Immortals
  • Actor
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1994 Against the Wall
  • Chaka
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1994 20% Sugar Hill
  • A.R. Skuggs
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1993 On the Streets of L.A.
  • Actor
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1993 0% Deadfall
  • Dean
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1993 Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (On the Streets of L.A.)
  • Raymond
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1992 85% Deep Cover
  • Ken Taft
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1991 33% My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
  • Virgil
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1990 50% Maniac Cop 2
  • Blum
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1988 62% I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
  • Kalinga
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1987 39% Tough Guys Don't Dance
  • Bolo
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1987 The Last Innocent Man
  • D.J. Johnson
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1987 Perfect Victims
  • Lt. Keving White
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1986 45% 52 Pick-Up
  • Bobby Shy
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1984 74% Purple Rain
  • Father
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1984 The House of Dies Drear
  • Actor
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1978 A Real American Hero
  • Actor
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1970 King - Montgomery to Memphis
  • Actor
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1963 100% The Cool World
  • Blood
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    1. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson: This is the problem. This is what's wrong with America. It's gotten so big, you just can't find your way. The grocery store on the corner is now a supermarket. The candy store is a McDonald's. And this place, a super-fucking discount store. Where's the pride of ownership, huh? Where's the personal service? You see what I mean? Shit. I mean, what right do they have, of cutting out the suppliers, pushing out all the middlemen, buying direct from the manufacturer? Sony this, Toshiba that. All them Chinks putting Americans out of work. That's the way it is now. You can't find the heart of anything to stick the knife.
    From American Gangster. Submitted by Patrick D (13 months ago)
    1. Thurgood: Who is this?
    2. Samson Simpson: This is Samson, smarty pants!
    3. Thurgood: Operator with an emergency breakthrough from your sister: Samson, it's Sheila. Mama fell.
    4. Samson Simpson: Shut up, bitch!
    From Half Baked. Submitted by ryan m (24 months ago)

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