Claude Williams was born on Erambie Mission, near Cowra, New South Wales, in 1929.
[2] One of these was Burst of Summer, as Charlie (1961; based on the stage play by Oriel Gray[3]), and he subsequently appeared in the television series Wandjina!
Claude also played with the Country Outcasts, touring with them throughout New South Wales and Victoria.
[1] His son is basketball player Claude Williams, who, on his appointment as head coach of the Sydney Kings, became the first and only Aboriginal basketball coach, and is an inductee of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Hall of Fame.
[6] He is first cousin to Harry Williams, the first Indigenous soccer player to represent the Socceroos at a World Cup, in 1974.