Star Wars Pin-up FRAMED #36 Lando Calrissian Billy Dee Williams Empire Strikes Back

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Lando Calrissian is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Baron Lando Calrissian first appears in The Empire Strikes Back as the baron administrator of Cloud City, concerned primarily with keeping the Galactic Civil War and the Empire out of his affairs. The bounty hunter Boba Fett, working for Darth Vader, tracks Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO, traveling in the hyperdrive-damaged Millennium Falcon, to Bespin. Shortly before Solo and crew make it to Bespin, Darth Vader and a contingent of Imperial forces arrive at Bespin and threaten to take over the city. Calrissian is strongarmed by Vader into betraying his old friend Solo and turning him over to Fett. Unwilling to leave the city in the hands of the Empire, Calrissian reluctantly does so, but his conscience gets the better of him when Vader goes back on his word and takes Princess Leia and Chewbacca as prisoners. When Lando sets Leia, C-3PO and Chewbacca free, Chewbacca chokes him for giving Solo to Vader and Fett, and Leia angrily tells Lando that they do not need his help before they chase after Fett, who escapes with Solo. In the ensuing evacuation of Cloud City, he helps Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO escape. He then assists Leia in rescuing the maimed Luke Skywalker, who had fallen into Vader’s trap and lost his right hand in the duel, from the underside of Cloud City. Afterwards, he joins the Rebel Alliance and promises Leia he will find Solo.

William December “Billy Dee” Williams, Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer known for playing the character Lando Calrissian in the movies Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, as well as the TV series Star Wars: Rebels.

The early 1980s brought Williams the role of Lando Calrissian, which he played in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Calrissian’s charm proved to be popular with audiences and Williams now had a substantial fanbase within the science fiction genre as well.

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