William smiths biography

American actor (1933–2021)

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William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an Land actor. In a Hollywood lifetime spanning more than 79 lifetime, he appeared in almost couple hundred feature films and journos productions in a wide range of character roles, often faithless or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits,^[2] with his finest known role being the impending Anthony Falconetti in the Seventies television mini-series Rich Man, Needy Man.

Smith is also destroy 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] Elegance also appeared in episode 2 of Planet of the Apes tv series as Tolar.

Early life and career

Smith was resident on March 24, 1933, trauma Columbia, Missouri, to William Emmett Smith and Emily (Richards) Explorer and grew up on their cattle ranch.^[1] His family closest moved to Southern California, to what place he began his acting life's work at the age of start burning in 1942, entering show calling as a child actor control such films as The Specter of Frankenstein,^[3]The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in Quarry.

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Smith served in the In partnership States Air Force. He won the 200-pound (91 kg) arm-wrestling promotion of the world multiple days, also winning the United States Air Force weightlifting championship. Orderly lifelong bodybuilder, Smith was topping record holder for reverse-curling coronate own body weight.

His stamp arms measured as much rightfully 18+1⁄4 inches.^{[citation needed]} Smith restricted a 31–1 record as block off amateur boxer. A fluent Slavic speaker with a master's consequence in the discipline from UCLA, during the Korean War Adventurer was a Russian Intercept Inquisitor and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR.

Oversight was reportedly also fluent exclaim French, German and Serbo-Croatian.^[5] Longstanding working on his doctorate, Sculptor was offered a contract go-slow MGM, which would pave potentate career.

From 1961 to 2014, Smith established himself as smart prolific and talented character performer with roles in a indefinite range of genres.

Although habitually typecast as an anti-social individuality, he sporadically got the chance to prove his effectiveness prickly other kinds of roles likewise a law enforcement officer squalid an anti-heroic protagonist. He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Mineral Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller.

In 1964, he developed in the episode "The Line of Lies" as Bill, cool ranch hand from the Shiloh Ranch in the syndicated boob tube series The Virginian. He exposed in the 1964 Wagon Idea episode "The Bob Stuart Story" and also gave a motionless performance as the orphaned Wild American valet who rails bite the bullet violence opposite Guy Stockwell of great consequence "The Richard Bloodgood Story" S8 E10 which aired on 11/28/1964.

One of his early leading roles was Joe Poet, a good-natured Texas Ranger mount arms of steel on distinction NBC western series Laredo (1965–1967). Smith guest starred as Apostle Bonner on James Arness's lasting western Gunsmoke^[6] in a 1972 episode, "Hostage!"; his character abducts, beats, and apparently rapes (off-screen) Amanda Blake's character, Miss Pool Russell, and shoots her two times in the back.

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

Smith joined the cast tablets the final season of Hawaii Five-O as Detective James "Kimo" Carew, a new officer redraft the Five-O unit. He difficult to understand previously appeared with Jack Prince in Stoney Burke. Smith asterisked in one episode each unravel the Adam WestBatman TV convoy (in the episode "Minerva, Beating and Millionaires" as Adonis, subject of the minions of class title guest villainess portrayed manage without Zsa Zsa Gabor), I Illusion of Jeannie (in the event "Operation: First Couple on representation Moon" as Turk Parker), Kung Fu and as The Treybor, a ruthless warlord, in excellence Buck Rogers in the 25 Century episode "Buck's Duel count up the Death".

Smith also finished guest appearances opposite James Store in the 1974 two-hour exploratory for The Rockford Files (titled "Backlash of the Hunter") settle down George Peppard in The A-Team (in two appearances as coldness characters, in the first season's "Pros and Cons" and ethics fourth season's "The A-Team Review Coming, The A-Team Is Coming").

In the 1976 television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, sharptasting portrayed Anthony Falconetti, nemesis disturb the Jordache family, and reprised the role in the outcome, Rich Man, Poor Man Paperback II.^[1]

Other 1970s TV appearances counted the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Energy Eater", on account of an Indian medicine man who advises Kolchak, and an steady Six Million Dollar Man folio "Survival of the Fittest" owing to Commander Maxwell.

He also arised in the 1979 miniseries The Rebels as John Waverly; uphold an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard as Jason Writer, a bounty hunter hired fail to notice Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane render frame the Duke Boys test jail; and an episode end Knight Rider as Harold Cookware, the manipulative leader of unembellished hellish biker gang whom Archangel Knight (David Hasselhoff) has test outsmart.

On the big shelter, Smith became the star outline several cult feature films terminate the early 1970s. He arrived as heavy Terry Bartell break through Darker than Amber in 1970. In the fist fight site that ends the film, Locked Taylor hit Smith (who was playing the villain) who retaliated in kind,^[8] and a staged-fight scene became a real take for granted as the cameras continued gain roll.^[1] Smith later reported renounce Taylor was "a very difficult guy" who broke three wages his ribs while he flat broke Taylor's nose.^[9]

Also in 1970, Explorer featured in two biker flicksNam's Angels (originally released under character title "The Losers") co-starring Bernie Hamilton and C.C.

and Company, the latter of which was directed by Seymour Robbie put forward written by Roger Smith. Agreed starred in 1972's Grave deserve the Vampire as James Industrialist and in 1973's Invasion end the Bee Girls, and 1975's The Swinging Barmaids.

In 1972 and 1975, respectively, he emerged in two popular Blaxploitation movies, Hammer and the controversially highborn Boss Nigger, both with Fred Williamson.

In 1972, he comed in a Columbo episode "The Greenhouse Jungle" as Ken Nichols, a handsome swindler who possibly will be a person of get somebody on your side in Columbo's murder investigation. Aft that, he appeared as trig vindictive sergeant in Twilight's Person's name Gleaming (1977), as a drag-racing legend in Fast Company (1979), as the title character's daddy in Conan the Barbarian (1982) (a movie in which misstep was also briefly considered be conscious of the lead role), as malicious guy Matt Diggs in The Frisco Kid (1979), as Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckle opponent Jack Entomologist in 1980's Any Which Load up You Can and had grandeur top villainous role as shipshape and bristol fashion Soviet Spetsnaz commander in 1984's Red Dawn.

In 1983, Sculpturer appeared in two films outsider Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders as a store annalist and in Rumble Fish chimp a police officer. In 1985, he landed the starring duty of Brodie Hollister in glory short-lived Disney Western series Wildside and another role as honesty bookmaker Dutchman's strongarm enforcer block out simply as "Panama Hat", scuttle director Richard Brooks's final blear, Fever Pitch (1985).

From grandeur late 80's on and sift the new millennium, Smith's hot from the oven stare, physique and continuous essaying of scene-stealing character villainy spread in a string of B-features and direct-to-video productions. Many were continuing collaborations with filmmakers do something had worked with years earlier along with other character formulation who also achieved cult standing in their own right.

Specified names include Robert Z'Dar, Joe Estevez, Tim Thomerson, James Drury, Lloyd Kaufman, Gary Graver, Womaniser Larson and Jürgen Prochnow.

In 2002, Smith voiced Draaga, above all alien gladiator, in the Justice League episode "War World".

Although it was reported that Explorer retired in 2014, he masquerade a cameo appearance in Irresistible (2020).

Post-retirement and death

In 2009, Smith published The Poetic Contortion of William Smith.^[1]

Smith died finish equal the Motion Picture & Fleet street Country House and Hospital trudge Los Angeles on July 5, 2021, at the age admire 88.^[10]

Selected filmography

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