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William Smith
Bekend van: ActerenWilliam 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
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Rumble Fish
Laredo
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Conan the Barbarian
The Outsiders
Maniac Cop
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
Red Dawn
American Me
Zero One
als Jimmy Delaney
Any Which Way You Can
Never So Few
The Mean Season
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Uncle Sam
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The Frisco Kid
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The Shooter
Hell Comes to Frogtown
als Captain Devlin / Count Sodom
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
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Boss Nigger
Fast Company
Eye of the Tiger
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Mail Order Bride
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The Ultimate Warrior
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Action U.S.A.
als Conover
Grave of the Vampire
The Phantom Empire
The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter
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The Deadly Trackers
als Schoolboy
The Mating Game
als Barney
The Last American Hero
als Kyle Kingman
Platoon Leader
als Major Flynn
The Losers
als Link Thomas
Rapturious
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The Thing with Two Heads
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Memorial Valley Massacre
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Chrome and Hot Leather
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Hell on the Battleground
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Terror in Beverly Hills
als President
Fever Pitch
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B.O.R.N.
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Hammer
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L.A. Vice
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Emperor of the Bronx
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C.C. and Company
The Jerk, Too
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Crowhaven Farm
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Blood & Guts
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Scorchy
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Black Samson
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Broken Vessels
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The Final Sanction
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Taken Alive
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Bulletproof
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East L.A. Warriors
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A Taste of Hell
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Empire of Ash III
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Darker Than Amber
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The Last Riders
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Instant Karma
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Run, Angel, Run!
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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
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GetEven
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