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Anson Williams is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer American born on 25 september 1949 at Los Angeles (USA)

Anson Williams

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Birth name Anson William Heimlich
Nationality USA
Birth 25 september 1949 (74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Anson Williams (born September 25, 1949) is an American actor and director, best known for his role as gullible but well-intentioned singer Warren "Potsie" Weber on the television series Happy Days.

Biography

Le père d'Anson Williams a dirigé une compagnie d'aviation dont il a été licencié. Il a alors ouvert un stand nommé le « Orange Julius » dans une salle de lutte sur Van Nuys boulevard, où Anson Williams a travaillé parfois de nuit quand il était au lycée.

Dès sa première année universitaire, au Pierce Junior College, il suit des cours d'art dramatique et découvre qu’il a des talents de comédien. Il décide d’abandonner son projet de devenir professeur de gymnastique. Il décide aussi d’abandonner son dernier nom de Heimlich pour s’appeler simplement Anson Williams, puis il décroche de nombreux rôles secondaires dans des comédies musicales et au théâtre, et il devient un visage populaire aux États-Unis après avoir tourné pour des publicités dont plusieurs pour McDonald's.

En 1974, il intègre la série Happy Days dans le rôle de Potsie, le meilleur ami de Richie. Ce personnage lui convient parfaitement car il lui permet de vivre son autre passion, la chanson. Après avoir quitté la série en 1983, il s’essaie à la musique mais sa carrière de chanteur n’est pas un succès.

En 1977, Anson Williams devient la vedette de sa propre émission télévisée : Anson Williams at Sea World. En 1981, sa femme Lorri Mahaffey et lui deviennent les vedettes d'une émission spéciale appelée : Anson et Lorri. Le show avait été conçu comme le pilote d'un spin-off de « Happy Days », mais il ne reçoit pas le succès escompté.

Après plusieurs années, Williams a compilé une longue liste de projets en tant que réalisateur de télévision. En plus de plusieurs téléfilms, il a dirigé des épisodes de Star Trek : Voyager, La Loi de Los Angeles, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Le Caméléon, Xena, la guerrière et Hercule.
Il a dirigé plusieurs épisodes de Diagnostic : Meurtre et un de La croisière s'amuse.

En 1987, avec son partenaire de Happy Days, Al Molinaro, il ouvre une chaîne de restaurants dans le midwest, nommée Big Al's. Aujourd’hui il vit à Malibu avec sa femme Jackie Gerken et sa fille Hannah née en 1989.

Usually with

Ron Howard
Ron Howard
(1 films)
Rance Howard
Rance Howard
(2 films)
Marion Ross
Marion Ross
(1 films)
Daniel Attias
Daniel Attias
(1 films)
Bette Davis
Bette Davis
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Anson Williams (5 films)

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Actor

I Married a Centerfold
Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Teri Copley, Timothy Daly, Diane Ladd, Todd Susman, Anson Williams, Bert Remsen
Roles Nick Bellows
Rating46% 2.348392.348392.348392.348392.34839
An engineer falls in love with a centerfold model he sees on television and sets out to win a bet with his friends that he will marry her.

Director

All-American Murder, 1h34
Directed by Anson Williams
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Romance
Actors Christopher Walken, Josie Bissett, Charlie Schlatter, Richard Kind, Joanna Cassidy, Kimberly Scott
Rating51% 2.552982.552982.552982.552982.55298
Artie Logan (Schlatter) is the new guy on Campus. Suddenly, he meets Tally Fuller: the most popular and beautiful girl at Fairfield college and she finally agrees to go on a date with him. But that night she is brutally killed by a blowtorch-wielding maniac and Artie is wrongfully arrested. Despite protests from other Police officers, detective P.J. Decker (Walken) believes Artie's story and gives him 24 hours to crack down the real killer. But, as Artie gets closer to the killer, each suspect is murdered and all the clues point to him.
Your Mother Wears Combat Boots, 1h45
Directed by Anson Williams
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Barbara Eden, David Kaufman, Héctor Elizondo, Meagen Fay, Annabelle Gurwitch, Conchata Ferrell
Rating52% 2.6245552.6245552.6245552.6245552.624555
Brenda Andersen (Barbara Eden) is an overprotective single mother from Iowa, who does not want her 18-year-old son Jimmy (David Kaufman) to follow in the footsteps of her late husband (who died in a parachute accident in Vietnam) by becoming an Airborne paratrooper in the US Army. Instead she sends him off to college, and then moves to Alaska to take up a new job. But once she moves, Jimmy leaves college and enlists in the army. He initially keeps this a secret, and only tells her after he's completed basic training and is about to begin Airborne parachute training at Fort Benning, Georgia.
The Drug Knot, 1h36
Directed by Anson Williams
Origin USA
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Dermot Mulroney, David Faustino, Tracy Nelson, Mary Ellen Trainor, Kim Myers, Lawrence Pressman
Rating69% 3.4700253.4700253.4700253.4700253.470025
High-school student Doug Dawson has it all: a loving family (comprised by his younger brother and their parents), a terrific girlfriend, a rock band he plays in after school...and a drug habit. The latter costs him everything else, as his behavior becomes increasingly erratic and alienation - some of it mutual - sets in. Doug wanders into an anti-drug lecture by David Toma, playing himself, but Doug is eventually ejected for disruptive behavior. Doug simply does not get the message - until, inevitably, the ultimate tragedy occurs.

Scriptwriter

Skyward
Skyward (1980)
, 1h40
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bette Davis, Howard Hesseman, Marion Ross, Clu Gulager, Lisa Whelchel, Irma P. Hall
Roles Story
Rating71% 3.589233.589233.589233.589233.58923

Producer

Skyward
Skyward (1980)
, 1h40
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bette Davis, Howard Hesseman, Marion Ross, Clu Gulager, Lisa Whelchel, Irma P. Hall
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71% 3.589233.589233.589233.589233.58923