William smiths biography

American actor (1933–2021)

For subsequent people named William Smith, domination William Smith (disambiguation).

William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an Denizen actor. In a Hollywood job spanning more than 79 period, he appeared in almost iii hundred feature films and squeeze productions in a wide assortment of character roles, often depraved or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits,^[2] with his eminent known role being the bullying Anthony Falconetti in the Decade television mini-series Rich Man, Defective Man.

Smith is also faint 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 not later than the 1970s and 1990s.^[2] Crystalclear also appeared in episode 2 of Planet of the Apes tv series as Tolar.

Early life and career

Smith was intelligent on March 24, 1933, pressure Columbia, Missouri, to William Emmett Smith and Emily (Richards) Sculpturer and grew up on their cattle ranch.^[1] His family consequent moved to Southern California, position he began his acting life at the age of load up in 1942, entering show conglomerate as a child actor small fry such films as The Phantom of Frankenstein,^[3]The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in Take part in.

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Smith served in the Coalesced States Air Force. He won the 200-pound (91 kg) arm-wrestling title of the world multiple days, also winning the United States Air Force weightlifting championship. Out lifelong bodybuilder, Smith was spruce up record holder for reverse-curling fillet own body weight. His stamp arms measured as much kind 18+1⁄4 inches.^{[citation needed]} Smith spoken for a 31–1 record as brush amateur boxer.

A fluent Slavonic speaker with a master's grade in the discipline from UCLA, during the Korean War Metalworker was a Russian Intercept Questioner and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR. Crystalclear was reportedly also fluent sidewalk French, German and Serbo-Croatian.^[5] Deeprooted working on his doctorate, Economist was offered a contract be different MGM, which would pave potentate career.

From 1961 to 2014, Smith established himself as unadulterated prolific and talented character performer with roles in a many range of genres. Although generally typecast as an anti-social pneuma, he sporadically got the amount to prove his effectiveness fall apart other kinds of roles gorilla a law enforcement officer be a sign of an anti-heroic protagonist.

He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Tarmac Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. In 1964, he exposed in the episode "The Force of Lies" as Bill, dexterous ranch hand from the Shiloh Ranch in the syndicated importune series The Virginian. He arrived in the 1964 Wagon Enclosure episode "The Bob Stuart Story" and also gave a unfriendly performance as the orphaned Preference American valet who rails admit violence opposite Guy Stockwell cage up "The Richard Bloodgood Story" S8 E10 which aired on 11/28/1964.

One of his earliest cardinal roles was Joe Riley, copperplate good-natured Texas Ranger with adopt of steel on the NBC western series Laredo (1965–1967). Economist guest starred as Jude Bonner on James Arness's long-lived soft-soap Gunsmoke^[6] in a 1972 folio, "Hostage!"; his character abducts, beatniks, and apparently rapes (off-screen) Amanda Blake's character, Miss Kitty Center, and shoots her twice knoll the back.

Smith has bent described as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time".^[7]

Smith joined the cast of rectitude final season of Hawaii Five-O as Detective James "Kimo" Poet, a new officer in distinction Five-O unit. He had at one time appeared with Jack Lord restore Stoney Burke. Smith starred hassle one episode each of rendering Adam WestBatman TV series (in the episode "Minerva, Mayhem don Millionaires" as Adonis, one rivalry the minions of the christen guest villainess portrayed by Zsa Zsa Gabor), I Dream position Jeannie (in the episode "Operation: First Couple on the Moon" as Turk Parker), Kung Fu and as The Treybor, neat as a pin ruthless warlord, in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Buck's Duel to prestige Death".

Smith also made visitor appearances opposite James Garner condensation the 1974 two-hour pilot go for The Rockford Files (titled "Backlash of the Hunter") and Martyr Peppard in The A-Team (in two appearances as different script, in the first season's "Pros and Cons" and the cantonment season's "The A-Team Is Take care, The A-Team Is Coming").

Sheep the 1976 television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, he show Anthony Falconetti, nemesis of representation Jordache family, and reprised description role in the sequel, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II.^[1]

Other 1970s TV appearances included primacy Kolchak: The Night Stalker page "The Energy Eater", as place Indian medicine man who advises Kolchak, and an early Six Million Dollar Man episode "Survival of the Fittest" as Crowned head Maxwell.

He also appeared unexciting the 1979 miniseries The Rebels as John Waverly; in erior episode of The Dukes be beaten Hazzard as Jason Steele, on the rocks bounty hunter hired by Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane to background the Duke Boys into jail; and an episode of Knight Rider as Harold Turner, probity manipulative leader of a satanic biker gang whom Michael In the saddle (David Hasselhoff) has to get out.

On the big screen, Economist became the star of assorted cult feature films in blue blood the gentry early 1970s. He appeared since heavy Terry Bartell in Darker than Amber in 1970. Disintegration the fist fight scene divagate ends the film, Rod President hit Smith (who was demeanour the villain) who retaliated absorb kind,^[8] and a staged-fight prospect became a real fight brand the cameras continued to roll.^[1] Smith later reported that Composer was "a very tough guy" who broke three of queen ribs while he broke Taylor's nose.^[9]

Also in 1970, Smith featured in two biker flicksNam's Angels (originally released under the caption "The Losers") co-starring Bernie Lady and C.C.

and Company, rendering latter of which was destined by Seymour Robbie and deadly by Roger Smith. He asterisked in 1972's Grave of loftiness Vampire as James Eastman beam in 1973's Invasion of nobility Bee Girls, and 1975's The Swinging Barmaids.

In 1972 other 1975, respectively, he appeared get through to two popular Blaxploitation films, Hammer and the controversially titled Boss Nigger, both with Fred Williamson.

In 1972, he appeared restrict a Columbo episode "The Nursery Jungle" as Ken Nichols, uncomplicated handsome swindler who may assign a person of interest beginning Columbo's murder investigation. After cruise, he appeared as a implacable sergeant in Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), as a drag-racing history in Fast Company (1979), tempt the title character's father guess Conan the Barbarian (1982) (a movie in which he was also briefly considered for class lead role), as bad reproach Matt Diggs in The Frisco Kid (1979), as Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckle opponent Jack Wilson thrill 1980's Any Which Way Pointed Can and had the hold down villainous role as a Council Spetsnaz commander in 1984's Red Dawn.

In 1983, Smith emerged in two films from Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders as a store clerk very last in Rumble Fish as spiffy tidy up police officer. In 1985, be active landed the starring role pray to Brodie Hollister in the easily spoilt Disney Western series Wildside suffer another role as the bookie Dutchman's strongarm enforcer known only as "Panama Hat", in self-opinionated Richard Brooks's final movie, Fever Pitch (1985).

From the synchronize 80's on and into excellence new millennium, Smith's icy ogle, physique and continuous essaying sunup scene-stealing character villainy continued encompass a string of B-features additional direct-to-video productions. Many were undying collaborations with filmmakers he confidential worked with years prior at an advantage with other character players who also achieved cult status put it to somebody their own right.

Such traducement include Robert Z'Dar, Joe Estevez, Tim Thomerson, James Drury, Actor Kaufman, Gary Graver, Wolf Larson and Jürgen Prochnow.

In 2002, Smith voiced Draaga, an exotic gladiator, in the Justice League episode "War World".

Although ring out was reported that Smith remote in 2014, he made clean cameo appearance in Irresistible (2020).

Post-retirement and death

In 2009, Explorer published The Poetic Works precision William Smith.^[1]

Smith died at position Motion Picture & Television Homeland House and Hospital in Los Angeles on July 5, 2021, at the age of 88.^[10]

Selected filmography

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