What Have We Here - Portraits of a Life

Informationen zum Autor Billy Dee Williams was born and raised in New York City. He has starred n forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and tv movies combined. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext The never-before-heard story of legendary actor Billy Dee Williams, aka Star Wars' Lando Calrissian. Vorwort The never-before-heard story of legendary actor Billy Dee Williams, aka Star Wars' Lando Calrissian. Zusammenfassung WHAT HAVE WE HERE? follows Billy Dee Williams from his childhood growing up in Harlem to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood before landing the role in George Lucas' space opera that would win him everlasting fame. 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 .

Product details

• Authors: Billy Dee Williams, Billy Dee Williams
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2024
• EAN: 9781529350210
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-5021-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Memoirs, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers