Montel Brian Anthony Williams (born July 3, 1956) is an American television personality and television and radio talk show host.
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Montel Brian Anthony Williams (born July 3, 1956) is an American television personality and television and radio talk show host.
Early life
Williams was born in New York, New York, and as a student participated in the Maryland busing movement.Fact: date=September 2008 He was an outstanding student, athlete, musician, and was student body president. His father, Herman Williams, Jr., was a firefighter who in 1992 became Baltimore's first African-American Fire Chief.
Military career
Williams enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1978 and completed his recruit training at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina. While training at Twentynine Palms, he was selected for training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School. A year later, he was accepted into the United States Naval Academy. In 1980, he graduated with a degree in international security affairs. Upon graduation, Williams was commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy, the first African–American enlisted Marine to complete and graduate both the Academy Prep School and Annapolis.
Williams became a cryptology officer and served on the USS Sampson during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. His awards include the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, two Navy Expeditionary Medals, two Humanitarian Service Medals, a Navy Achievement Medal, two Navy Commendation Medals and two Meritorious Service Medals. After 12 years of military service he departed as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.
Hosting
Montel began The Montel Williams Show (syndicated by CBS Paramount Television) in 1991. In 1996, Williams received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. He was again nominated for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2002, and the Montel Williams Show was nominated for Outstanding Talk Show in 2001 and 2002.
On January 30, 2008, Variety reported that CBS TV Distribution terminated The Montel Williams Show when key Fox-owned stations chose not to renew it for the 2008-2009 season. It has been alleged that this resulted in part from an appearance on the show Fox & Friends in which Williams criticized the media's lack of coverage on the Iraq War, and took the hosts to task for their (and the media in general) excessive coverage of the death of actor Heath Ledger, contrasted with the sparse coverage of U.S. soldiers dying in IraqFact: date=March 2009. Some have noted that one of the segment's hosts told viewers that Williams would return for further conversation after a commercial break, but that Williams was no longer on the set when the commercials ended. On May 16, 2008 the last episode of The Montel Williams Show aired.
On April 6, 2009, he began hosting a daily radio show, Montel Across America, on Air America Media.
Acting
Williams also guest-starred in episodic television and off-Broadway plays. Among others, he portrayed a Navy SEAL lieutenant in several episodes of the television series JAG. Williams 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.
