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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 5-0 1969Serie como Det. James 'Kimo' Carew
Laredo 1965Serie como Joe Riley
Rebeldes 1983Película como Store Clerk
Maniac Cop 1988Película como Captain Ripley
La ley de la calle 1983Película Apple TV StoreAmazon VideoClaro video como Patterson the Cop
Zero One 1962Serie como Jimmy Delaney
The Mean Season 1985Película como Albert O'Shaughnessy
El infierno vuelve a Frogtown 1988Película Tubi TV como Captain Devlin / Count Sodom
Los Dreggs 1987Película Cultpix como Dr. Chambers
Tensión en el circuito 1979Película Plex como Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson
Experimento Diabolico 1972Película como Hysterical Condemned Man (uncredited)
Zona Mortal 1987Película como Colonel Meredith
B.O.R.N. 1989Película Tubi TV como Dr. Farley
Scorchy 1976Película como Carl Henrich
L.A. Vice 1989Película como Capt. Joe Wilkes