Movies starring Billy Dee Williams

The Glass House (1972)

90 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Sometimes I wish I could jump back in time, forgetting all which I know and experience a movie for the first time when it came out. That is most certainly how I feel when it comes to "The Glass House" the prison movie from 19...

Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)

100 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Christmas Lilies of the Field: Billy Dee Williams stars as Homer Smith who on returning to the desert and the Nuns finds himself helping them again...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

124 mins     Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi      

As a child "The Empire Strikes Back" was my least favourite of the original "Star Wars" trilogy, although trust me I still loved it. Now I never contemplated why that was until I watched it again many years later and that is ...

Nighthawks (1981)

99 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

Before his movies became all about his muscles Sylvester Stallone made "Nighthawks" a routine yet entertaining thriller which saw Stallone as Deke DaSilva, a New York Cop, pitched against evil terrorist Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer)...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

134 mins     Action , Adventure , Fantasy      

So we come to "Return of the Jedi" what for a long time was the final "Star Wars" and the movie which not only gave us the cuddly Ewoks but also gave us Carrie Fisher in that bikini. But that is me being distracted because wh...

Batman (1989)

126 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

It's amusing to think that when "Batman" came out in 1989 that many felt it was too different to the popular TV series as it didn't feel as jokey and had a darker side. Yet watched now after Christopher Nolan gave us the much...

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

240 mins     Biography, Drama, TV Movie      

Like many I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, I was 11 when he released "Thriller" and I drove my parents crazy listening to it. But there is a difference between being a fan of the music and being a fan of the person and...

Danielle Steel's 'Message from Nam' (1993)

175 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

Danielle Steel's 'Message from Nam' (1993) Jenny Robertson stars as Paxton Andrews who after suffering loss during the Vietnam war aims to help others with loved ones stationed in Vietnam...

Steel Sharks (1997)

94 mins     Action      

Steel Sharks: a Navy SEAL mission to sve a weapons expert goes wrong and they find themselves being used as human shielfs aboard a submarine by terrorists...

The Ladies' Man (2000)

84 mins     Comedy      

Watching "The Ladies' Man" I kept on thinking of another love god, Lenny Henry's Theophilus P Wildebeeste as Henry's creation and Tim Meadows' Leon Phelps are not that too dissimilar. They both are amusing love god characters...

Dirty Dancing (2017)

130 mins     Drama, Musical, Romance, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Dirty Dancing (2017) made for TV musical re-imagining/ remake of the much loved 1987 movie starring Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes as Baby and Johnny...