Hal Williams Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
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, and That Girl.Williams is also the host of the annual Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation nationally-televised telethon.
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Nominations
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
Movies
Guess Who, Private Benjamin, The Rookie, Snow 2: Brain Freeze, The Cherokee Kid, Hardcore, The West Side Waltz, The Escape Artist, Herbie Rides Again, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning, Flight, The Sky Is Gray, On the Nickel
TV Shows
Mad Love, The Sinbad Show, 227, Private Benjamin, On the Rocks
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Fact
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He was fired from The Jimmy Stewart Show (1971) by its star James Stewart. According to NBC producer Hal Kanter, Stewart didn't think it would be appropriate for a black character to be ordering him around on television with a family audience watching.