{{Short description|American pornographic actor (born 1951)}} {{distinguish|Billy Dee Williams|Billy Dee Smith}} {{Infobox adult biography | name = Billy Dee | image = | caption = | birth_name = William Randall Daniels | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|9|25}} | birth_place = San Diego, California, United States | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Nikki Knights | height = | other_names = Obe-Wahn, Billie Dee, Billy D., Billy De, Ron Anderson, Robert Franklin, Billy Daniels, Obi Wahn | years_active = 1978–1996 | website = }}
'''William Randall Daniels''' (born September 25, 1951), better known by the stage name '''Billy Dee''', is an American retired adult film actor.
==Life and career== Born and raised in San Diego, California, Daniels is of mixed ancestry, of Irish, Mexican and African heritage, one of six children; he has four brothers and a sister.<ref name="Meet Billy Dee"/> He worked from the age of 11, often on his grandfather's farm milking the cows, and lost his virginity at 14 in a barn, although he did not have sex again until he was 17. By the early 1970s, he began appearing in short 8mm film loops, appearing in the first of them at age 24. By 1978, at age 27, he appeared in his first big-budget porn flick, ''The Legend Of Lady Blue'' with fellow porn stars Gloria Leonard and John Leslie.<ref name="Meet Billy Dee">{{cite web| title=Meet Billy Dee: The American man living in Bristol who has starred in 600 porn films| publisher=BristolPost.com| url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Meet-BillySedate-life-man-starred-600-porn-films/story-24763059-detail/story.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129190109/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Meet-BillySedate-life-man-starred-600-porn-films/story-24763059-detail/story.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=2014-11-29|access-date=2015-05-28|date=2014-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|tt0079452|The Legend of Lady Blue}}</ref>
Daniels had the most prominent part of his career during the second-wave of the so-called Golden Age of Porn from the mid-late 1980s to the early-mid 1990s. In a period when the segregation of pornographic actors on racial lines was a sensitive issue and top female stars were often reluctant in performing with black males,<ref name="Meet Billy Dee"/> being a very light-skinned African American man ("everyone thought he just had a great tan")<ref name = "adult"/> and speaking "smoothly,"<ref name="excalibur">[https://archive.today/20140715132740/http://www.excaliburfilms.com/malepgs/Billy_Dee.htm Billy Dee - Excalibur Films profile]</ref> Daniels could pass for white, securing him roles in top-rated pornographic productions with prominent porn stars such as Marilyn Chambers (''Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies'' series) and one-time girlfriend and later wife, Nikki Knights,<ref name="adult">{{cite web|url=http://www.adulthalloffame.com/item/Billy_Dee/|title=Adult Hall of Fame|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123034003/http://www.adulthalloffame.com/item/Billy_Dee/|date=2015|archivedate=November 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.therialtoreport.com/2015/11/15/billy-dee/|date=November 15, 2015|title=Billy Dee: Porn Again Christian – Podcast 56|work=The Rialto Report|author=Hall, April}}</ref> Knights worked with Dee in adult films.<ref name="adult"/> Dee made his adult debut with a small role in ''The Legend Of Lady Blue'' (1978) and also was the only African American actor the 1980s top star Traci Lords had performed with.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Internet Adult Film Database|date=May 16, 2003|url=http://www.iafd.com/person.asp?perfid=TLords&gender=F|title=Traci Lords|access-date=May 15, 2020|archive-date=May 16, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030516195915/http://www.iafd.com/person.asp?perfid=TLords&gender=F|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> Dee also played in productions with explicit black themes such as the porn parody ''Chocolate C.H.I.P.S.'' (1988)<ref name = "excalibur"/><ref>[http://pornparody.com/2011/11/chocolate-chips/ Chocolate C.H.I.P.S. - Porn Parody] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715025239/http://pornparody.com/2011/11/chocolate-chips/ |date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref> and ''Caught from Behind V: Blondes and Blacks'' (1986), the interracial special release in an anal sex video series. Daniels has been called a porn actor who had blurred the color lines in the American porn industry.<ref name = "adult"/>
He was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2002.<ref name=xrco>{{cite web| title=XRCO| publisher=XRCO.com| url=http://xrco.com|access-date=2008-02-23}}</ref>
==Personal life== Billy Dee had a daughter with a girlfriend in the U.K. and later went on to marry adult actress Suzannah French.<ref name="Rialto Report">[http://www.therialtoreport.com/2015/11/15/billy-dee/ Rialto Report interview with Billy Dee] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521004506/http://www.therialtoreport.com/2015/11/15/billy-dee/ |date=May 21, 2016 }}</ref> Now the grandfather to eight, and great grandfather to two, Daniels spends time between the U.K in Bristol and the U.S.<ref name="Meet Billy Dee"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Pornography}} * {{IMDb name|0214150}} * {{iafd name|id=BDee|gender=male|name=Billy Dee}} * {{afdb name|id=1632|gender=male|name=Billy Dee}} * [http://www.therialtoreport.com/2015/11/15/billy-dee/ Rialto Report interview with Billy Dee]
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