Live Session With Iconic Actor Hal Williams
Live Session with television and film icon Hal Williams. As we celebrate the 37-year anniversary of the game-changing Black family television series 227, Hal, who has well over 100 combined film & television credits to his name, talks to us about how Hollywood has changed over his more than five decades in the business. We also discussed his activism and why he doesn’t so much care about accolades as much as results. Hal delivers his own twist on the adage “Real gangsters move in silence.”
Always busy, Hal is working on a cookbook and his memoir!
If you haven’t had a chance to check out his podcast “Hal’s Hitlist,” with Emmy Award-winning co-host Sharlette Hambrick, you’ve missed quite an experience and it looks like it might be coming back for another season…previous shows are available on the major podcast networks and on YouTube via Manifested Entertainment.
Here’s a very short list of his work:
- 227: first aired September 14, 1985 – May 6, 1990 (37th Anniversary since original air date; 32nd anniversary of last show)
- Private Benjamin: 1980 Film – 42nd Anniversary
- Private Benjamin TV series: first aired April 6, 1981 – January 10, 1983 (41st anniversary since original air date; 39th anniversary of last show)
- The Waltons: first aired September 14, 1972 – June 4, 1981 (50th Anniversary since original air date; 41st anniversary of last show)
- Sanford and Son: first aired January 14, 1972 – March 25, 1977 (50th Anniversary since original air date; 45th anniversary of last show)
- Sanford: March 15, 1980 – July 10, 1981 (42nd Anniversary since original air date; 41st anniversary of last show)
- Harry O: September 12, 1974 – April 29, 1976 (48th Anniversary since original air date; 46th anniversary of last show)
- Kung Fu (original series): October 14, 1972 – April 26, 1975 (50th Anniversary since original air date; 47th anniversary of last show)
- On the Rocks: September 11, 1975 – May 17, 1976 ( 47th Anniversary since original air date; 46th anniversary of last show)
- The Sinbad Show: September 16, 1993 – April 21, 1994 (29th Anniversary since original air date; 28th anniversary of last show)
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