On his 1935 marriage certificate, he is an actor for MGM. By 1940, he changed gears within the motion picture industry and became a property man (U.S. Census, 20 Apr 1940), with his World War II draft registration card (16 Oct 1940) giving his employer as the Warner Bros. studio; he is still a prop man in the 1950 U.S. Census.
Online sources mix his filmography and information up with another Al Williams (b. 28 November 1912 in Waycross, Georgia; d. 03 May 1985 in Los Angeles, California), a black entertainer who was a member of the pioneering Four Step Brothers dance group.
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