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William Smith

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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".

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Hawaii Five-O 1969Serie als Det. James 'Kimo' Carew
Rumble Fish 1983Film Apple TV StoreAmazon Video als Patterson the Cop
Laredo 1965Serie als Joe Riley
Maniac Cop 1988Film als Captain Ripley
Red Dawn 1984Film Amazon Prime Video als Strelnikov
Zero One 1962Serie als Jimmy Delaney
Never So Few 1959Film Apple TV Store als MP Officer #1
The Mean Season 1985Film als Albert O'Shaughnessy
The Shooter 1997Film Amazon Prime VideoPlexPlex Channel +1 als Jerry Krants
Hell Comes to Frogtown 1988Film als Captain Devlin / Count Sodom
Boss Nigger 1975Film PlexPlex Channel als Jed Clayton
Fast Company 1979Film PlexPlex Channel als Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson
The Losers 1970Film als Link Thomas
The Thing with Two Heads 1972Film als Hysterical Condemned Man (uncredited)
Fever Pitch 1985Film als Panama Hat
B.O.R.N. 1989Film als Dr. Farley
Hammer 1972Film als Brenner
L.A. Vice 1989Film als Capt. Joe Wilkes
Crowhaven Farm 1970Film als Patrolman Hayes
Scorchy 1976Film als Carl Henrich
Black Samson 1974Film als Johnny Nappa
Bulletproof 1988Film als Russian Major