Happy 89th Birthday to the legendary Billy Dee Williams! Today we celebrate the General who led the attack on the second Death Star and proved that a smooth talker can also be a true hero of the Rebellion.

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April 06, 2026 - 21:23 UTC

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Love me some Billy Dee!
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‘Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars’ is a great movie, with a great cast! It shows a side of America that was overlooked for way too long!
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We need to rent out a movie theater and watch all his classics.
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Night Hawks is highly underrated.
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89? Lucky man.
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In another world, we had a Batman cinematic universe with Billy Dee Williams as Two Face and Prince as The Joker.
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Oh my goodness I can totally imagine that!!
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I love his role in Undercover Brother.
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I completely forgot that exists.
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"This chicken is Da Bomb" 💥
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Bingo Long needs more love.

I can't believe it's not well-known.
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In his day an incredible tenor. Never forget he entered public life as a member of The Fifth Dimension.
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What a fabulous actor! Brian’s song always choked me up.
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Well, I hope he's having a fantastic birthday! What a legend!
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THANK YOU!

I WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY COLT 45 ERASURE!
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He was really cool on the commentary track on the second Robot Chicken Star Wars DVD.
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That moustache is such a big part of his image that I wouldn’t recognise him immediately without it :)
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So happy to see Nighthawks in here too! He was great. I wanted a spinoff movie or show with his character.
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William Williams.
Always thought that was an interesting choice for his parents to make 🤔
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He warned us about cult 45
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Don’t forget Lady Sings the Blues!
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🎉🎉🎉Also Lady Sings the Blues And Mahogany!
HB BDW!
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Smooth, suave Billy Dee. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Happy Birthday, Billy Dee!!
🥳🎉🎂
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Don't forget Mahogany 1975

He also had a lovely perfume through Avon Undeniable 1990
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About a decade back, I had the privilege of meeting him at an art supply store in North Hollywood

Apparently he likes to paint
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As an artist, I would have loved talking favorite pigments in passing, as I grabbed my favorite Williamsburg and Sennelier.
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That’s awesome.
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Bingo Long is a great movie.
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The fact that his character had an Armenian name (and he has mentioned it), tickled me beyond belief at the time.
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It works every time.
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I would have liked to see his Two-Face.
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I think it would have been awesome.
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I just bought the Lando collectible figurine. It’s coming in today through USPS. Still in the plastic baby.
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Billy Dee Williams is 89?
omg
He was a major sex symbol in my youth.
I must be older than I think I am. 😩
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I remember seeing him at comic con when people were trying to get him to sign Colt 45 bottles. At first he said he shouldn't, then he gave in and did. (He did a memorial commercial for them)
He seems like a good dude. :)
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First saw him ln “Brian’s Song”, waaaaay back in the day. Happy Birthday to Billy Dee!
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My first crush!! Happy Birthday
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Yes, happy birthday to the classiest mother fucker in the galaxy. No question. 😁
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And even though he never got to appear as Two-Face in a movie, the first Batman '89 Comic which ignores the Schumacher movies' events shows us what a Third Batman movie helmed by Burton would look like with Two-Face as the main villain.
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Riddle me this! Riddle me that!

Black and sometimes very, very dark grey are the colors used by what kind of Bat?
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Lady Sings the Blues
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He lives with us
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Nighthawks is a pretty under appreciated classic of his too. One of the few Stallone flicks I actually like.
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We need a General Calrissian to organize the Resistance against the 🍊turd & make sure our planet survived. 🍊Is dying & wants to take all of us with him.
I refuse to go down silently.
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Billy Dee Williams 🩷🫶
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Han Solo in back of crowd: "what about that Solo fella, that guy proved smooth talkers can also be heroes"

Leia: : "shut up, laser brain"
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That always heard about Brian's song I even seen an episode of King and Queens where Doug plays out the movie in his head, but I had no idea it was Billy Dee Williams
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Same. I don’t think actors names were really on my radar when I saw Brian’s song, but I had no idea he was Gale Sayers. (I’m assuming.)
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i still wish we had seen his take on two-face 😒
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Lady Sings the Blues was when I fell in love with Billy Dee Williams.
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my friend was his handler for an entire comic-con, she said he was a charming gentleman to everyone he met
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Billy Dee 🎂
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Makes me feel very, very old.
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Me too
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Wow, how time flies! 🙏🏼
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During the ancient times on the Internet someone had made a simple Flash site with the premise that Billy Dee Williams should eat more salsa, and it was just his Lando character with salsa in various Star Wars scenes.

After he was a smooth guy, and salsa is smooth.

I still believe in the message.
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I need to find this. Thank you for sharing.
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Brian s Song
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Seems like every collage of Billy Dee Williams leaves on 'Lady Sings The Blues'! He was GREAT in it.
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Dee is an Ageless Dude! What a beautiful face.
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It works every time
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