William Smith
Biography
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".
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-03-24
Place of birth
Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Cast
The Outsiders
1983
7.20
Rumble Fish
1983
7.00
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
5.80
Neon Signs
1996
0.00
Red Dawn
1984
6.30
L.A. Vice
1989
3.70
Eagle's Law
1988
0.00
Hell Comes to Frogtown
1988
5.49
The Ultimate Warrior
1975
5.70
Boss Nigger
1975
6.65
Invasion of the Bee Girls
1973
4.51
Zombiegeddon
2003
2.60
Deadly Memories
2002
2.20
Maverick
1994
6.89
Conan the Barbarian
1982
6.80
Uncle Sam
1996
4.78
Eye of the Tiger
1986
6.00
The Phantom Empire
1987
3.50
The Vampire Hunters Club
2001
0.00
Feast
1992
3.33
Grave of the Vampire
1972
5.60
Rapturious
2007
3.46
The Thing with Two Heads
1972
4.78
The Swinging Barmaids
1975
4.20
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961
5.16
Moon in Scorpio
1987
3.40
Voices from the Graves
2006
0.00
Big Sister 2000
1995
2.00
Hollywood Cops
1997
1.67
Hollywood Man
1976
4.70
Angels Die Hard
1970
5.40
Fever Pitch
1985
3.43
Fast Company
1979
5.08
East L.A. Warriors
1989
4.64
The Frisco Kid
1979
6.10
Any Which Way You Can
1980
5.75
Darker Than Amber
1970
6.40
Inner Rage
2006
3.50
Blackjack
1978
3.60
Chrome and Hot Leather
1971
5.14
C.C. and Company
1970
5.41
Black Samson
1974
4.70
Hammer
1972
5.20
The Final Sanction
1990
4.04
Run, Angel, Run!
1969
3.40
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
6.40
Memorial Valley Massacre
1988
4.00
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
1973
6.00
Action U.S.A.
1989
5.32
Piranha
1972
3.50
The Roller Blade Seven
1991
2.80
Seven
1979
5.70
Scorchy
1976
3.80
GetEven
1993
4.57
The Losers
1970
4.60
Empire of Ash III
1990
2.10
Y.M.I.
2004
2.00
Backtrack!
1969
5.30
Terror In Beverly Hills
1989
3.80
The Deadly Trackers
1973
5.60
Cybernator
1991
3.00
The Sex Symbol
1974
2.33
Legend of The Roller Blade Seven
1993
3.75
Mail Order Bride
1964
6.60
Girls Town
1959
3.42
Dr. Minx
1975
2.40
Jungle Assault
1989
3.40
Spirit of the Eagle
1991
6.00
God Has a Rap Sheet
2003
2.00
The Last American Hero
1973
5.59
Commando Squad
1987
3.40
Blood & Guts
1978
2.00
Evil Altar
1988
2.80
Rock n' Roll Cops Lite
2014
0.00
Bulletproof
1988
4.95
Instant Karma
1990
3.80
Return of the Roller Blade Seven
1993
4.38
Policewomen
1974
4.00
Three Guns for Texas
1968
5.00
Win, Place or Steal
1975
0.00
The Colony
1996
6.00
Maniac Cop
1988
6.10
The Shooter
1997
4.57
Hell to Pay
2005
6.30
Never So Few
1959
5.40
Hell on the Battleground
1987
3.40
Forgotten Heroes
1990
0.00
Runaway, Runaway
1971
1.00
American Me
1992
7.41
Gilda
1946
7.50
Taken Alive
1994
6.00
36 Hours
1964
7.00
The Rebels
1979
0.00
The Last Riders
1992
4.00
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
6.97
Going My Way
1944
6.67
The Rock 'n Roll Cops
2003
0.00
Deadly Breed
1989
5.60
The Man Hunter
1972
6.00
Broken Vessels
1998
4.80
Kiss and Be Killed
1991
4.00
Cartel
1990
3.00
Merchant of Evil
1991
0.00
Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
2007
8.00
The Mating Game
1959
6.23
B.O.R.N.
1989
3.40
Platoon Leader
1988
5.50
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947
5.00
Killer Story
2004
5.00
Red Nights
1988
2.50
Debbie Does Damnation
1999
4.20
Shadow of the Dragon
1992
3.50
Emperor of the Bronx
1990
5.00
Blood of His Own
1998
0.00
The Mean Season
1985
6.22
The Badd One
1987
0.00
Wasteland Justice
1999
2.00
Vice
2000
0.00
Heat of Las Vegas
1998
2.00
Never Look Back
2000
2.50
Doses of Horror
2018
3.86
The Jerk, Too
1984
3.00
Raw Energy
1996
0.00
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
2.00
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
7.50
Manosaurus
1994
2.00
The Boneyard Collection
2008
5.30
Dark Secrets
1992
0.00
Crackle of Death
1976
6.00
Doublecross on Costa's Island
1997
4.17
Irresistible
2020
6.03
Prologue to Wounded Knee
1973
6.00
Slow Burn
1989
4.00
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
6.20
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
5.60
A Mission to Kill
2003
0.00
Crowhaven Farm
1970
6.00
Hard Time Romance
1991
5.00
The Gazebo
1960
6.91
Death Among Friends
1975
3.63
A Taste of Hell
1973
0.00