Billy Dee Williams Ex-Wife: Who is Marlene Clark?

Marlene Clark was the ex-wife of American actor, novelist and painter Billy Dee Williams.

The former couple married in Hawaii in 1968. She was his son Corey’s stepmother from his first marriage. Their marriage lasted only three years before they separated in 1971.

Marlene Clark was an actress, animator, and fashion model from the United States.

Clark is most remembered for her roles as Ganja Meda in the 1973 horror film Ganja & Hess and Janet Lawson, Lamont’s girlfriend in the comedy Sanford and Son from its fifth season in 1975 until its end in 1977.

She also appeared in Black Mamba (1974). That same year, she starred in The Beast Must Die (1974) alongside Calvin Lockhart, Michael Gambon, and Peter Cushing.

Clark also appeared in Clay Pigeon (1971), Beware! The Blob (1972), and Newman’s Law (1974) throughout the 1970s. In the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son, Clark played Janet Lawson, Lamont Sanford’s fiancée.

Marlene Clark died on the same day as her Slaughter co-star, Jim Brown, on May 18, 2023. She was 85 years old.