Williams, Gregalan

WILLIAMS, GREGALAN. Actor, writer. Williams is an Emmy Award -winning actor from Des Moines, Iowa, with a long list of credits in television and film. For seven seasons, he played Officer Garner Ellerbee, a beach cop on the television series Baywatch . He has guest starred on The Sopranos, The West Wing , and Boston Public . He was a regular as Dr. Nathan Ambrose on City of Angels , the first black medical drama in primetime. His Emmy Award nominated PBS special 1534 Cleveland , won second place in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Competition. He has written one nonfiction book A Gathering of Heroes, Boys to Men: Maps for the Journey , and is finishing a second Courage to Love: Loving and Celebrating the Plus Size Woman . He is co-founder of The Journey Foundation, a nonprofit curriculum development teaching organization in Georgia.

Filmography: Above the Law , 1988; Major League , 1989; The Package , 1989; In the Line of Fire , 1993; Stag , 1997; Acts of Betrayal , 1997; Remember the Titans , 2000; The Beat , 2003; Old School , 2003.