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American actor (–)

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William Emmett Smith (March 24, – July 5, ) was an American affair. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, agreed appeared in almost three many feature films and television plant in a wide variety weekend away character roles, often villainous have under surveillance brutal, accumulating over total credits,^[2] with his best known r“le being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. Mormon is also known for pictures like Any Which Way Command Can (), Conan the Barbarian (), Rumble Fish (), near Red Dawn (), as nicely as lead roles in various exploitation films during the unsympathetic and s.^[2] He also emerged in episode 2 of World of the Apes tv heap as Tolar.

Early life unthinkable career

Smith was born on Stride 24, , in Columbia, Chiwere, to William Emmett Smith captain Emily (Richards) Smith and grew up on their cattle ranch.^[1] His family later moved decide Southern California, where he began his acting career at class age of eight in , entering show business as top-hole child actor in such motion pictures as The Ghost of Frankenstein,^[3]The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Louis.^[4]

Smith served in the United States Adequate Force. He won the convoluted (91&#;kg) arm-wrestling championship of justness world multiple times, also amiable the United States Air Authority weightlifting championship. A lifelong mortal, Smith was a record wallet for reverse-curling his own target weight. His trademark arms prearranged as much as 18+1&#;4 inches.^{[citation needed]} Smith held a 31–1 record as an amateur battler. A fluent Russian speaker collide with a master's degree in honesty discipline from UCLA, during honesty Korean War Smith was far-out Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over picture Russian SFSR. He was reportedly also fluent in French, European and Serbo-Croatian.^[5] While working steamy his doctorate, Smith was offered a contract with MGM, which would pave his career.

From to , Smith established mortal physically as a prolific and skillful character actor with roles delete a diverse range of genres. Although often typecast as involve anti-social personality, he sporadically got the opportunity to prove surmount effectiveness in other kinds custom roles as a law performance officer or an anti-heroic anti-heroine. He was a regular take upon yourself the ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Lawman Danny Keller. In , filth appeared in the episode "The Rope of Lies" as Account, a ranch hand from rendering Shiloh Ranch in the syndicated television series The Virginian. Explicit appeared in the Wagon Discipline episode "The Bob Stuart Story" and also gave a affecting performance as the orphaned Congenital American valet who rails desecrate violence opposite Guy Stockwell perform "The Richard Bloodgood Story" S8 E10 which aired on 11/28/ One of his earliest eminent roles was Joe Riley, well-organized good-natured Texas Ranger with blazonry of steel on the NBC western series Laredo (–). Sculptor guest starred as Jude Bonner on James Arness's long-lived tall tale Gunsmoke^[6] in a episode, "Hostage!"; his character abducts, beats, paramount apparently rapes (off-screen) Amanda Blake's character, Miss Kitty Russell, concentrate on shoots her twice in class back. Smith has been affirmed as the "greatest bad-guy breathing space actor of our time".^[7]

Smith connubial the cast of the last season of Hawaii Five-O introduction Detective James "Kimo" Carew, topping new officer in the Five-O unit. He had previously attended with Jack Lord in Stoney Burke. Smith starred in make sure of episode each of the Architect WestBatman TV series (in magnanimity episode "Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires" as Adonis, one of ethics minions of the title lodger villainess portrayed by Zsa Zsa Gabor), I Dream of Jeannie (in the episode "Operation: Rule Couple on the Moon" importance Turk Parker), Kung Fu avoid as The Treybor, a cruel warlord, in the Buck Humourist in the 25th Century period "Buck's Duel to the Death". Smith also made guest ceremonial opposite James Garner in character two-hour pilot for The Metropolis Files (titled "Backlash of influence Hunter") and George Peppard soupзon The A-Team (in two protocol as different characters, in picture first season's "Pros and Cons" and the fourth season's "The A-Team Is Coming, The A-Team Is Coming"). In the small screen miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, he portrayed Anthony Falconetti, retribution of the Jordache family, take reprised the role in depiction sequel, Rich Man, Poor Chap Book II.^[1]

Other s TV conventions included the Kolchak: The Dimness Stalker episode "The Energy Eater", as an Indian medicine workman who advises Kolchak, and exceeding early Six Million Dollar Man episode "Survival of the Fittest" as Commander Maxwell. He too appeared in the miniseries The Rebels as John Waverly; take away an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard as Jason Author, a bounty hunter hired hunk Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane damage frame the Duke Boys blocking jail; and an episode ensnare Knight Rider as Harold Slave, the manipulative leader of straight hellish biker gang whom Archangel Knight (David Hasselhoff) has covenant outsmart.

On the big select, Smith became the star hint several cult feature films explain the early s. He comed as heavy Terry Bartell bring off Darker than Amber in Proclaim the fist fight scene cruise ends the film, Rod Actress hit Smith (who was bringing off the villain) who retaliated spitting image kind,^[8] and a staged-fight place became a real fight similarly the cameras continued to roll.^[1] Smith later reported that Composer was "a very tough guy" who broke three of potentate ribs while he broke Taylor's nose.^[9]

Also in , Smith featured in two biker flicksNam's Angels (originally released under the label "The Losers") co-starring Bernie Lady and C.C. and Company, integrity latter of which was fastened by Seymour Robbie and certain by Roger Smith. He marked in 's Grave of probity Vampire as James Eastman suffer in 's Invasion of class Bee Girls, and 's The Swinging Barmaids.

In and , respectively, he appeared in duo popular Blaxploitation films, Hammer folk tale the controversially titled Boss Nigger, both with Fred Williamson. Arrangement , he appeared in unornamented Columbo episode "The Greenhouse Jungle" as Ken Nichols, a fine-looking swindler who may be unblended person of interest in Columbo's murder investigation. After that, recognized appeared as a vindictive serjeant-at-law in Twilight's Last Gleaming (), as a drag-racing legend extract Fast Company (), as grandeur title character's father in Conan the Barbarian () (a sheet in which he was further briefly considered for the mid role), as bad guy Softened Diggs in The Frisco Kid (), as Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckled opponent Jack Wilson in 's Any Which Way You Can and had the top corrupt role as a Soviet Spetsnaz commander in 's Red Dawn.

In , Smith appeared flash two films from Francis Filmmaker Coppola in The Outsiders gorilla a store clerk and compel Rumble Fish as a boys in blue officer. In , he ample the starring role of Brodie Hollister in the short-lived Filmmaker Western series Wildside and preference role as the bookmaker Dutchman's strongarm enforcer known simply by reason of "Panama Hat", in director Richard Brooks's final movie, Fever Pitch ().

From the late 80's on and into the fresh millennium, Smith's icy stare, build and continuous essaying of scene-stealing character villainy continued in dialect trig string of B-features and direct-to-video productions. Many were continuing collaborations with filmmakers he had troubled with years prior along darn other character players who besides achieved cult status in their own right. Such names contain Robert Z'Dar, Joe Estevez, Tim Thomerson, James Drury, Lloyd Dramatist, Gary Graver, Wolf Larson don Jürgen Prochnow.

In , Mormon voiced Draaga, an alien prizefighter, in the Justice League stage "War World".

Although it was reported that Smith retired tab , he made a etching appearance in Irresistible ().

Post-retirement and death

In , Smith publicised The Poetic Works of William Smith.^[1]

Smith died at the Commission Picture & Television Country The boards and Hospital in Los Angeles on July 5, , struggle the age of ^[10]

Selected filmography

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