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William Smith

Actor / Screenwriter / Film Producer / Stunt Performer / Model (person) | * 03/24/1933 († 88, 07/05/2021) | Columbia, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. Smith is also known for films like Any Which Way You Can (1980), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), and Red Dawn (1984), as well as lead roles in several exploitation films during the 1970s and 1990s. ()
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William Smith was an American film and television actor who appeared in more than 300 feature films and television productions, best known for playing Anthony Falconetti on the TV mini series "Rich Man, Poor Man". He held a BA from Syracuse and an MA in Russian Studies from UCLA.Born in Columbia, Missouri, Smith began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942; he entered films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Louis.He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. One of his earliest leading roles was as Joe Riley, a Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo. In 1967, Smith guest starred as Jude Bonner on James Arness's long-lived western Gunsmoke.Smith was cast as John Richard Parker, brother of Cynthia Ann Parker, both taken hostage in Texas by the Comanche, in the 1969 episode "The Understanding" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days, which was hosted by Robert Taylor. In the story line, Parker contracts the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche warriors, and is rescued by his future Mexican wife, Yolanda (Emily Banks).He played outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown in the 1969 episode "The Restless Man". In that story line, Brown takes the job of sheriff to tame a lawless town, begins to court a young woman (again played by Emily Banks), but soon returns to his deadly outlaw ways in search of bigger thrills.On Gunsmoke, Smith appeared in a 1972 episode, "Hostage!"; his character beats and rapes Amanda Blake's character Miss Kitty Russell and shoots her twice in the back. Smith has been described as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time".

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Action | Crime

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Movies with William Smith as Actor(135)

as Hofbrau Bar Fly2020 Irresistible
as Neil Agar ("A Dose of Bee Stings" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited)2018 Doses of Horror
as Rinaldi (archive footage)2014 Rock n' Roll Cops Lite
as Bill, the Director2009 Her Morbid Desires
as Bill, the First Director (segment "Her Morbid Desires")2008 The Boneyard Collection
as Sheriff2007 Rapturious
as Man with Machine Gun2007 Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
as Sam2006 Inner Rage
as Lester Jiggs2006 Voices from the Graves
as Emil Brax2005 Hell to Pay
as Spooky Harlow2005 Vice
as Monty2004 Killer Story
as Lucifer2003 God Has a Rap Sheet
as Lord Zombie2003 Zombiegeddon
as Rinaldi2003 The Rock 'n Roll Cops
as Sheriff Taggart2002 Deadly Memories
as Conan's Father (archive footage)2000 Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
as Moon1999 Wasteland Justice
as Bo1998 Broken Vessels
as Mario Verelli1998 Heat of Las Vegas
as Rinaldi1997 Hollywood Cops
as Jerry Krants1997 The Shooter
as Major1996 Uncle Sam
as Sam Stompkins1996 Raw Energy
as Clyde1996 Neon Signs
as Theo Maxwell1996 The Colony
as The Man1995 Big Sister 2000
as Riverboat Poker Player1994 Maverick
as L.E.1994 Taken Alive
as Sheriff Todd1994 Manosaurus
as Normad1993 GetEven
as Deacon1992 American Me
as Eric Brunner1992 Shadow of the Dragon
as Hammer1992 The Last Riders
as Robert1992 Dark Secrets
as Det. George Bordelli1992 Feast
as Det. Murdoch1991 Kiss and Be Killed
as Colonel Peck1991 Cybernator
as Victor Fortunetti1991 Merchant of Evil
as Hatchett1991 Spirit of the Eagle
as Pharoah1991 The Roller Blade Seven
as Maj. Galashkin1990 The Final Sanction
as Lucas1990 Empire of Ash III
as Pop1990 Instant Karma
as Mason1990 Cartel
as General Mitchell1989 Jungle Assault
as Conover1989 Action U.S.A.
as President1989 Terror In Beverly Hills
as Martelli1989 East L.A. Warriors
as Antonio Scarpelli1989 Slow Burn
as Capt. Joe Wilkes1989 L.A. Vice
as Dr. Farley1989 B.O.R.N.
as Captain1989 Deadly Breed
as Phillip1988 Red Nights
as Dr. Chambers1988 The Phantom Empire
as Captain Ripley1988 Maniac Cop
as Captain Devlin / Count Sodom1988 Hell Comes to Frogtown
as Gen. Mintz1988 Memorial Valley Massacre
as Major Flynn1988 Platoon Leader
as Reed Weller1988 Evil Altar
as Russian Major1988 Bulletproof
as Colonel Meredith1987 Hell on the Battleground
as Burt1987 Moon in Scorpio
as Badd1987 The Badd One
as Morgan Denny1987 Commando Squad
as Blade1986 Eye of the Tiger
as Panama Hat1985 Fever Pitch
as Albert O'Shaughnessy1985 The Mean Season
as Suicide1984 The Jerk, Too
as Strelnikov1984 Red Dawn
as Patterson the Cop1983 Rumble Fish
as Store Clerk1983 The Outsiders
as Conan's Father1982 Conan the Barbarian
as Jack Wilson1980 Any Which Way You Can
as Drew1979 Seven
as Matt Diggs1979 The Frisco Kid
as Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson1979 Fast Company
as John Waverly1979 The Rebels
as Andy Mayfield (as Bill Smith)1978 Blackjack
as Dan O'Neil1978 Blood & Guts
as Rafe Stoker1976 Hollywood Man
as Carl Henrich1976 Scorchy
as Shaman Jim Elkhorn1976 Crackle of Death
as Gus Dolan1975 Dr. Minx
as Jed Clayton1975 Boss Nigger
as Carrot1975 The Ultimate Warrior
as Butch Wischnewski1974 The Sex Symbol
as Karate Instructor1974 Policewomen
as Johnny Nappa1974 Black Samson
as Neil Agar1973 Invasion of the Bee Girls
as Kyle Kingman1973 The Last American Hero
as Martelli1973 Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
as Camper John Allen1973 Prologue to Wounded Knee
as Schoolboy1973 The Deadly Trackers
as Clel Bocock1972 The Man Hunter
as Caribe1972 Piranha, Piranha
as Brenner1972 Hammer
as James Eastman1972 Grave of the Vampire
as Hysterical Condemned Man1972 The Thing with Two Heads
as Frank1971 Runaway, Runaway
as Terry1970 Darker Than Amber
as Moon1970 C.C. and Company
as Link Thomas1970 The Losers
as Tim1970 Angels Die Hard
as Amos (as Bill Smith)1969 The Over-the-Hill Gang
as Angel1969 Run, Angel, Run!
as Texas Ranger Joe Riley (archive footage)1969 Backtrack!
as Texas Ranger Joe Riley1968 Three Guns for Texas
as Lank1964 Mail Order Bride
as Captain of the Guard1961 Atlantis: The Lost Continent
as MP Officer #1 (uncredited)1959 Never So Few
as Barney1959 The Mating Game
as Boy (uncredited)1948 The Boy with Green Hair
as Man (uncredited)1946 Gilda
as Boy (uncredited)1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Little Boy (uncredited)1944 Meet Me in St. Louis
as Choir Member (uncredited)1944 Going My Way
as Vasarian Boy1942 The Ghost of Frankenstein

TV Shows/Series with William Smith as Actor(85)

as Draaga (voice)2001 Justice League
as Wes Tronker (segment "Devil's Tattoo")1998 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Harold Geiger1994 Due South
as Silas Quint1993 Walker, Texas Ranger
as Clyde Thorson1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Steele1984 Airwolf
as Patterson1984 Airwolf
as Sgt. Neville Sigerson1984 Hunter
as Sgt. Sal Drasso1984 Hunter
as Jase Tataro1983 The A-Team
as Dimitri Shasta Kovich1983 The A-Team
as Harold T. Turner1982 Knight Rider
1979 Benson
1978 Vega$
as Stan1977 CHiPs
as Falconetti1976 Rich Man, Poor Man
1975 Bronk
as Jerry Grimes1974 The Rockford Files
as Jim Elkhorn1974 The Night Stalker
as Cmdr. Maxwell1974 The Six Million Dollar Man
1972 Kung Fu
1972 Search
as Nichols1971 Columbo
as Det. James 'Kimo' Carew1968 Hawaii Five-O
1968 Julia
as Kitana1968 Here Come the Brides
1967 Custer
as Adonis1966 Batman
as Joe Riley1965 Laredo
as Turk1965 I Dream of Jeannie
as Catoga1964 Daniel Boone
as Campuits1964 Daniel Boone
as Amos (uncredited)1964 Daniel Boone
as Amos Martin1964 Daniel Boone
as Deputy Raynor1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Richter1962 Combat!
as German Sergeant1962 Combat!
as Tommy Lad1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Andy Adams1962 The Virginian
as Bill1962 The Virginian
as Paul Rogers1962 The Virginian
as Joe Riley1962 The Virginian
as Spector1962 The Virginian
as Andy Witcoe1957 Perry Mason
as Jude Bonner1955 Gunsmoke
as Latch1955 Gunsmoke
1954 Lassie
as Dan Turner1952 Death Valley Days
as Marshall Hendry Brown1952 Death Valley Days

Movies with William Smith as Crew(3)

Production/Producer1976 Hollywood Man
Writing/Screenplay1976 Hollywood Man
Production/Producer1973 Prologue to Wounded Knee

Full Name: William Smith
Born: Friday, 03/24 1933 (March) in Columbia, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 07/05 2021 (July) in Los Angeles (aged: 88)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Syracuse University, University of Paris, University of California, Los Angeles, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Other names for William Smith (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"William E. Smith"
"Bill Smith"
"Big Bill Smith"
"William Smith II"
"William Smith (Schauspieler)"
William Smith frequently works together with these people:
Morgan Woodward (38x, Actor)
Sid Haig (36x, Actor)
Donald G. Jackson (36x, Crew)
Mills Watson (35x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (34x, Actress)
Scott Shaw (34x, Crew)
John Anderson (33x, Actor)
Ed Nelson (32x, Actor)
John Crawford (32x, Actor)
Norman Alden (31x, Actor)
Robert Karnes (31x, Actor)
William Schallert (30x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:6259, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/12/2024