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Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story

as Man with Machine Gun

2007
Inner Rage

as Sam

2006
Hell to Pay

as Emil Brax

2005
Deadly Memories

as Sheriff Taggart

2002
The Shooter

as Jerry Krants

1997
Uncle Sam

as Major

1996
Taken Alive

as L.E.

1994
American Me

as Deacon

1992
The Roller Blade Seven

as Pharoah

1991
Spirit of the Eagle

as Hatchett

1991
Cybernator

as Colonel Peck

1991
The Final Sanction

as Maj. Galashkin

1990
Empire of Ash III

as Lucas

1990
Instant Karma

as Pop

1990
L.A. Vice

as Capt. Joe Wilkes

1989
Action U.S.A.

as Conover

1989
Terror In Beverly Hills

as President

1989
Deadly Breed

as Captain

1989
Maniac Cop

as Captain Ripley

1988
Hell Comes to Frogtown

as Captain Devlin / Count Sodom

1988
Platoon Leader

as Major Flynn

1988
Memorial Valley Massacre

as Gen. Mintz

1989
Bulletproof

as Russian Major

1988
Moon in Scorpio

as Burt

1987
Commando Squad

as Morgan Denny

1987
Hell on the Battleground

as Colonel Meredith

1987
Eye of the Tiger

as Blade

1986
William Smith William Smith

Birthday

1933-03-24

Place of Birth

Columbia, Missouri, USA

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".
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