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Clarence Williams III’s Milestones
Portrayed Linc on "The Mod Squad" (ABC)
1957 New York stage debut, "Dark of the Moon" (date approximate)
1960 Broadway debut, "The Long Dream"
1963 Film debut, "The Cool World"
1964 Starred on Broadway in "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground"
1966 - 1967 Served as artist in residence at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1967 TV episodic debut, "Daktari" (CBS)
1979 Starred opposite Maggie Smith in "Night and Day" on Broadway
1984 Played Prince's abusive father in "Purple Rain"
1989 Appeared as Kalinga in "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka"
1994 Cast as drug-addicted father in "Sugar Hill"
1994 Featured as prison rebel Chaka in "Against the Wall" (HBO)
1998 Portrayed Jelly Roll Morton in "The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean/The Legend of 1900" (released in an edited version in the USA in 1999)
1999 Co-starred in "The General's Daughter"
2000 Made memorable guest appearance on "Law & Order"

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Born

August, 21 1939 in New York City, New York, USA

Professions

actor, bartender, cook, office worker