Editing Montel Williams (section)

=== Acting ===
Williams has also guest-starred in episodic television and off-Broadway plays. Among other roles, he portrayed a [[United States Navy SEALs|Navy SEAL]], Lieutenant Curtis Rivers, in three episodes of the television series ''[[JAG (TV series)|JAG]]''. He also produced and starred in a short-lived television series called ''[[Matt Waters]]'', which appeared on [[CBS]] in 1996. He played an ex-Navy SEAL turned inner-city high school teacher.<ref>{{cite news|title=Next Up on Montel: Host Turns Actor|work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 3, 1996|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-03-ca-20503-story.html|access-date=December 7, 2010|first=Howard|last=Rosenberg|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713152617/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-03/entertainment/ca-20503_1_montel-williams|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref> In 1997, he played Lt Col Northrop, a [[USAF]] nuclear missile silo commander, in the fictional movie ''[[The Peacekeeper]]''. In 2002, he played the judge presiding over [[Erica Kane]]'s (Susan Lucci) murder trial on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[soap opera]] ''[[All My Children]]''. In 2003, he made a guest appearance on the soap as himself to promote an episode of his own show on which several ''AMC'' stars were scheduled to appear. In 2004, he hosted ''[[American Candidate]]'', a political reality show on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]. Williams has also guest-starred on ''[[The New Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' and ''[[Guiding Light]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://soaps.sheknows.com/guiding-light/news/2168/montel-williams-to-guest-star-on-guiding-light/|title=Montel Williams to Guest Star on Guiding Light|date=July 21, 2008|website=Soaps.com|access-date=September 6, 2019}}</ref>

Williams also appeared in a ''[[Perry Mason (TV film series)|Perry Mason]]'' movie in 1993 titled ''The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host''. His character, Boomer Kelly, was a former football player who was appearing on a radio talk show whose owner was found murdered. He was also a voice actor in 2008 in the political satire film ''[[War, Inc.]]'', providing the voice of the main character's GPS tracking device/counselor.<ref>{{Citation|title=War, Inc. (2008) – IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884224/characters/nm0931354|access-date=September 6, 2019}}</ref>

On October 1, 2019, Williams appeared in an episode of the Fox drama ''The Resident'' entitled, "Flesh of My Flesh". Williams played himself, as a TV personality covering a nearly impossible cancer surgery being performed on an adoptive mother of seven.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}