After two years as an Army paratrooper, he appeared on stage, including a Broadway role in The Long Dream, in 1960, and in a breakout role in Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. His first film role was in The Cool World, in 1963, and in 1968, he made his television debut in The Mod Squad, which resulted from a recommendation by Bill Cosby, who had seen Williams in Slow Dance on the Killing Ground.
One episode of The Mod Squad joined TOS’s season three episode in featuring an interracial kiss, in this case a friendly one between Linc and Barnes, Peggy Lipton’s character. Producer Aaron Spelling got pushback: 'You can't do that,' I was told. 'You can't have a black man kissing a white girl.' I won and ABC agreed to let it in, but they warned me I'd receive thousands of complaint letters. I didn't get one."
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