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Bill Duke
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Miami Vice Director
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Born
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February 26, 1943, Poughkeepsie, New York
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Active
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1976-present
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William Henry Duke, Jr. (born February 26, 1943, Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American actor and director, who directed the episode "Baseballs of Death" of the series Miami Vice.
Career[]
Duke got his first film acting role as "Abdullah Mohammed Akbar" (aka Duane) in the 1976 film Car Wash (with Jack Kehoe, Antonio Fargas, and Pepe Serna), then moved on to roles in American Gigolo, Commando (with Dan Hedaya and David Patrick Kelly), Predator (with Elpidia Carrillo), Action Jackson (with Vanity and Jack Thibeau), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (also directed, with Brad Sullivan and Robert Pastorelli), Payback, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Big Bang, Restored Me (with Pepe Serna), No Sudden Move (with Benecio del Toro), and Premonition.
His TV acting credits include his debut in The ABC Afterschool Special, followed by Starsky and Hutch (with Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, and Antonio Fargas), Charlie's Angels, Benson, Fastlane, Karen Sisco, Battlestar Galactica (with Edward James Olmos), Lost (with Terry O'Quinn), Black Lightning (with James Remar), and Gaslit (with Julia Roberts).
Duke first got into directing in the 1980s, directing episodes of the TV series Flamingo Road, Falcon Crest, Dallas, Cagney and Lacey, Fame, Knots Landing, Amen, Strong Medicine, Robbery Homicide Division, and the movies Not Easily Broken, Cover, A Rage in Harlem, and Created Equal (with Lou Diamond Phillips).