MEET THE DEAN
Gregory Alan Williams
The most recent addition to Emmy Award winner Gregory Alan Williams broad list of credits is his series regular role on the new HBO comedy series THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES (Danny McBride, John Goodman). GregAlan also received rave reviews for his series regular role as Robert “Mac” McCready on the groundbreaking OWN network series Greenleaf (Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey).
To date, Williams has appeared in more than fifty feature films, including Terminator Genysis, Misconduct (Josh Duhamel, Al Pacino), Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, Geostorm (Ed Harris, Andy Garcia), Preacher’s Kid (LaToya Luckett), and, the moving, faith-based hit A Question of Faith (Kim Fields) Topping the list are classics such as Remember the Titans (Denzel Washington), In the Line of Fire (Clint Eastwood), Old School (Will Ferrell), and Above the Law (Steven Segal).
Of course, there is also William’s seven seasons as beach cop Garner Ellerbee on the most watched television show in the world, Baywatch—work which is also accompanied by nearly 160 additional career titles, including recurring roles on The Sopranos and The West Wing.
In the summer of 2015, Williams won Best Actor honors at the Christian International Film Festival for his work in the inspirational short film Roses as well as a second regional Emmy Award for his narration of the Vietnam War documentary Iowans Remember Vietnam.
Williams’s career also features stage work with Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, the Chicago Shakespeare Repertory Theater, the Chicago Theater Company, the Mixed Blood Theater (Mpls), and Chicago’s Goodman Theater. Williams is also a founding member of the world-renowned Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In 1992, Williams was heralded nationally as a hero and Good Samaritan for his rescue of a brutally beaten motorist at the intersection of Florence and Normandy during the epicenter of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Williams responded to these accolades with his first book A Gathering of Heroes, which was hailed as “a moving illumination on the meaning of brotherhood”.
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