The Late George Brigars Williams

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George Brigars Williams Born on 8th January, 1929 in Sekondi. He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast and then to the Balham & Tooting College of Commerce and also studied Acting at The Stage Craft Centre all in London, U.K. He performed in Julian Green’s South at the London’s Arts Theatre, soon after he joined the musical ballet Carribean Heatwave with Shirley Bassey as the lead singer and Ben Johnson as the lead dancer opening at the Little Theatre in Jersey.




After a series of programmes on the BBC West African Service, he made several recordings with great jazz musicians in England such as Hurry Cline, Mike Makenzie, Shake Kean and Joe Harriot. In 1956 George B. Williams produced a pageant that featured five hundred dancers from all the regions of Ghana at the Accra Sports Stadium, as part of the Independence anniversary celebration of Ghana.



He was hired as a senior producer in the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and the seconded to the Nigerian Broadcasting Service.In 1961 he won a Commonwealth scholarship to study broadcasting at the BBC. After returning from England he joined the Liberian Advertising Service and later became the Chief Executive of the Sierra Leone Advertising Service.




He also represented the New York Times in Sierra Leone in advertising & Sales.In 1968 he returned to Ghana as the Commercial Manager of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.He performed under the name Buddy Pipp on the professional stage, cinema and recording studios. He has featured in two dozen films in Ghana and Abroad.



Mr Williams starred in movies including: Last Hope, Genesis Chapter X, Black Sunday, Dirty Deal, Friday At 4:30, Justice, The Young And The Old, Bloody Mary, My Sister's Honor as well as in Ghana’s award-winning soap opera, Ultimate Paradise. He also taught acting at the Accra Film School (AFS), an Accra-based private film and television training institute. George Brigars Williams has five children and was a widower. On August 1, 2016 Mr Williams passed on at (aged 87) Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after a short illness

Source; Accra Film School
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