Surviving Christmas

Life on Liberty Street

Bruce Almighty

The Bernie Mac Show

Gilmore Girls

The West Wing

7th Heaven

Hope and Gloria

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

Home Improvement

Cop Rock

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Snoops

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Frank's Place

The Cosby Show

Coming Down

William Thomas Jr. (November 8, 1947 – November 14, 2020) was an American actor. 
From 1991 to 1992, he played Vanessa Huxtable's fiancé Dabnis Brickey on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, during the eighth and final season.
Prior to his work on The Cosby Show, Thomas portrayed Cool Charles on the critically acclaimed but short-lived 1987-1988 CBS comedy-drama Frank's Place, which starred Tim Reid and his wife Daphne Maxwell Reid. He also portrayed Det. William Donald Potts on Steven Bochco's widely panned 1990 ABC musical-drama Cop Rock. He later played Mr. Laskin on the "My Big Brother" episode of Family Matters, as well as appearing in episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Home Improvement, and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper.
Before coming to Hollywood, he appeared on Broadway in Godspell, Your Arms Are Too Short to Box with God, and as Jacob in the original production of La Cage aux Folles. 
Thomas also appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2005 as an INS agent. Movie credits include Mambo Kings, Bruce Almighty, and Surviving Christmas.