William Smith

Acting · 1.9 popularity

Age

Movies

145

Born: March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021
From: 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".

Works

145 films

Conan the Barbarian

19826.8

The Outsiders

19837.2

Red Dawn

19846.3

Maverick

19946.9

Rumble Fish

19837.0

Mail Order Bride

19647.0

Any Which Way You Can

19805.8

Maniac Cop

19886.1

American Me

19927.4

Irresistible

20206.0

Gilda

19467.5

Meet Me in St. Louis

19447.0

Twilight's Last Gleaming

19776.5

Never So Few

19595.5

The Man Hunter

19728.0

The Frisco Kid

19796.1

The Mean Season

19856.2

36 Hours

19647.0

The Gazebo

19596.9

Hell Comes to Frogtown

19885.5

Invasion of the Bee Girls

19734.6

The Last American Hero

19735.7

Evil Altar

19883.8

The Ultimate Warrior

19755.8

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

19615.1

Going My Way

19446.7

Vice

20008.0

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

19477.5

The Ghost of Frankenstein

19425.8

Uncle Sam

19964.9

Zombiegeddon

20033.2

Boss Nigger

19756.7

Eye of the Tiger

19866.1

Taken Alive

19948.0

Seven

19795.8

Ask Any Girl

19596.5

The Mating Game

19596.4

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

19457.5

Policewomen

19744.4

Bulletproof

19885.1

The Phantom Empire

19873.7

Memorial Valley Massacre

19884.2

Platoon Leader

19885.5

The Roller Blade Seven

19913.2

Scorchy

19764.4

Hell to Pay

20056.5

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

20006.8

Fast Company

19795.1

Grave of the Vampire

19725.6

Blood of His Own

19988.0

C.C. and Company

19705.5

The Deadly Trackers

19735.9

The Shooter

19974.8

The Boy with Green Hair

19486.2

Rapturious

20073.9

The Boneyard Collection

20085.3

The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula

20015.8

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter

197410.0

Empire of Ash III

19902.7

The Over the Hill Gang

19695.8

Doses of Horror

20183.8

Inner Rage

20065.7

B.O.R.N.

19894.5

The Losers

19704.8

L.A. Vice

19894.4

Fever Pitch

19854.3

The Thing with Two Heads

19725.0

Prologue to Wounded Knee

19738.0

Commando Squad

19873.8

Doublecross on Costa's Island

19974.6

Backtrack!

19696.0

Girls Town

19593.8

Debbie Does Damnation

19994.2

Return of the Roller Blade Seven

19934.7

Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang

19824.5

The Jerk, Too

19844.5

GetEven

19934.3

Moon in Scorpio

19873.7

Crowhaven Farm

19706.1

Feast

19924.8

The Swinging Barmaids

19754.7

Three Guns for Texas

19686.7

Legend of The Roller Blade Seven

19934.6

Hollywood Man

19764.9

Instant Karma

19904.8

Action U.S.A.

19895.5

Shadow of the Dragon

19924.7

Blackjack

19784.5

Deadly Breed

19896.1

Win, Place or Steal

19758.0

Hammer

19725.4

Dr. Minx

19754.0

Broken Vessels

19985.3

The Vampire Hunters Club

20018.0

Death Among Friends

19754.9

The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

19807.5

Cartel

19903.6

Hollywood Cops

19973.8

East L.A. Warriors

19895.0

The Sex Symbol

19744.0

A Taste of Hell

19736.5

Emperor of the Bronx

19907.5

Slow Burn

19895.3

The Badd One

198710.0

Blood & Guts

19784.7

Black Samson

19745.0

Chrome and Hot Leather

19715.6

Piranha

19723.9

Hard Time Romance

19916.0

Run, Angel, Run!

19694.2

Y.M.I.

20044.3

Darker Than Amber

19706.4

Sweet Jesus, Preacherman

19737.0

Voices from the Graves

2006

Terror in Beverly Hills

19894.0

The Last Riders

19924.6

The Final Sanction

19904.8

Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story

20078.0

Angels Die Hard

19706.0

Spirit of the Eagle

19916.2

Red Nights

19883.6

Wasteland Justice

19996.0

Jungle Assault

19894.2

The Rock 'n Roll Cops

20039.0

The Colony

19967.5

Heat of Las Vegas

19983.5

God Has a Rap Sheet

20033.7

Never Look Back

20004.0

Crackle of Death

19767.5

Runaway, Runaway

19713.3

Hell on the Battleground

19874.2

Deadly Memories

20022.7

Big Sister 2000

19953.3

Cybernator

19913.2

Merchant of Evil

19917.0

Neon Signs

19969.0

Kiss and Be Killed

19916.5

Manosaurus

19945.5

Dark Secrets

199210.0

Killer Story

20045.7

Eagle's Law

198810.0

A Mission to Kill

20039.0

Rock n' Roll Cops Lite

2014

Raw Energy

199610.0

Forgotten Heroes

19909.0