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Birth name Halroy Candis WilliamsNationality USABirth 14 december 1938 (85 years) at Columbus (
USA)
Harold "Hal" Williams (born December 14, 1938) is an American actor, best known for his recurring role as Police Officer Smith ("Smitty") on Sanford and Son, and as the patriarch Lester Jenkins, the husband of Marla Gibbs's character, on the NBC sitcom 227.
Williams started out in the acting business in 1969. Since then, he has appeared in movies such as Paul Schrader's Hardcore, Howard Zieff's Private Benjamin (he also portrayed the role of Sgt L.C. "Ted" Ross in the television series of the same name), and Clint Eastwood's The Rookie. He was controversially fired from The Jimmy Stewart Show in 1971 at the insistence of its star, James Stewart. In the early to mid-1990s, he starred in many of comic Sinbad's productions, including The Sinbad Show and The Cherokee Kid. He played the grandfather in the Bernie Mac film Guess Who.
His other television credits include Moonlight, Moesha, Suddenly Susan, Minor Adjustments, L.A. Law, Night Court, Magnum, P.I., Hill Street Blues, Gimme a Break, The Jeffersons, The Dukes of Hazzard, T.J. Hooker, The Waltons, Knots Landing, The White Shadow, What's Happening!!, Good Times, Quincy, M.E., Kung Fu, S.W.A.T.,Gunsmoke, ""Sanford and Son"", 227, and That Girl.
Williams is also the host of the annual Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation nationally-televised telethon. Biography
Hal Williams monte sur scène en 1969. Dès lors, il est apparu dans des comédies dont Hardcore, Private Benjamin , et La Relève. Dans les années 1990, il tient le premier rôle dans les Sinbad's productions, dont The Sinbad Show et The Cherokee Kid . Plus récemment, il joue le grand-père dans Black/White.
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