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WHAT HAVE WE HERE? PORTRAITS OF A LIFE
What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life HardcoverĀ by Billy Dee Williams (Author)Ā ā February 13, 2024. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier.
His first film role was in The Last Angry Man, the great Paul Muniās final film. It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him soaring as an actor, āYou can play any character you want to play no matter who you are, no matter the way you look or the color of your skin.ā And Williams writes, āI wanted to be anyone I wanted to be.ā
He writes of landing the role of a lifetime: co-starring alongside James Caan in Brianās Song, the made-for-television movie that was watched by an audience of more than fifty million people. Williams says it was āthe kind of interracial love story America needed.ā
And when, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, he became a true pop culture icon, playing Lando Calrissian in George Lucasās The Empire Strikes Back (āWhat I presented on the screen people didnāt expect to seeā). It was a role he reprised in the final film of the original trilogy, The Return of the Jedi, and in the recent sequel The Rise of Skywalker. A legendary actor, in his own words, on all that has sustained and carried him through a lifetime of dreams and adventure.
About the Author: BILLY DEE WILLIAMS was born and raised in New York City. He has starred in forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and TV movies combined. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Publisher ā : ā Knopf (February 13, 2024)
Language ā : ā English
Hardcover ā : ā 288 pages
ISBN-13 ā : ā 978-0593318607
Item Weight ā : ā 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ā : ā 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
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WHAT HAVE WE HERE? PORTRAITS OF A LIFE
WHAT HAVE WE HERE? PORTRAITS OF A LIFE
What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life HardcoverĀ by Billy Dee Williams (Author)Ā ā February 13, 2024. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier.
His first film role was in The Last Angry Man, the great Paul Muniās final film. It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him soaring as an actor, āYou can play any character you want to play no matter who you are, no matter the way you look or the color of your skin.ā And Williams writes, āI wanted to be anyone I wanted to be.ā
He writes of landing the role of a lifetime: co-starring alongside James Caan in Brianās Song, the made-for-television movie that was watched by an audience of more than fifty million people. Williams says it was āthe kind of interracial love story America needed.ā
And when, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, he became a true pop culture icon, playing Lando Calrissian in George Lucasās The Empire Strikes Back (āWhat I presented on the screen people didnāt expect to seeā). It was a role he reprised in the final film of the original trilogy, The Return of the Jedi, and in the recent sequel The Rise of Skywalker. A legendary actor, in his own words, on all that has sustained and carried him through a lifetime of dreams and adventure.
About the Author: BILLY DEE WILLIAMS was born and raised in New York City. He has starred in forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and TV movies combined. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Publisher ā : ā Knopf (February 13, 2024)
Language ā : ā English
Hardcover ā : ā 288 pages
ISBN-13 ā : ā 978-0593318607
Item Weight ā : ā 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ā : ā 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
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What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life HardcoverĀ by Billy Dee Williams (Author)Ā ā February 13, 2024. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier.
His first film role was in The Last Angry Man, the great Paul Muniās final film. It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him soaring as an actor, āYou can play any character you want to play no matter who you are, no matter the way you look or the color of your skin.ā And Williams writes, āI wanted to be anyone I wanted to be.ā
He writes of landing the role of a lifetime: co-starring alongside James Caan in Brianās Song, the made-for-television movie that was watched by an audience of more than fifty million people. Williams says it was āthe kind of interracial love story America needed.ā
And when, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, he became a true pop culture icon, playing Lando Calrissian in George Lucasās The Empire Strikes Back (āWhat I presented on the screen people didnāt expect to seeā). It was a role he reprised in the final film of the original trilogy, The Return of the Jedi, and in the recent sequel The Rise of Skywalker. A legendary actor, in his own words, on all that has sustained and carried him through a lifetime of dreams and adventure.
About the Author: BILLY DEE WILLIAMS was born and raised in New York City. He has starred in forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and TV movies combined. He lives in Los Angeles.
Product details
Publisher ā : ā Knopf (February 13, 2024)
Language ā : ā English
Hardcover ā : ā 288 pages
ISBN-13 ā : ā 978-0593318607
Item Weight ā : ā 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ā : ā 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
