William Smith

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William Smith (born March 24, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in over three hundred feature films and television series, with his most well-known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. Smith is also known for films including Any Which Way You Can (1980), Conan The Barbarian (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), and Red Dawn (1984), as well as lead roles in many exploitation films in the 1970s.

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Early life and career

Smith was born in Columbia, Missouri, on March 24, 1933, to William Emmett Smith and Emily Richards Smith, and he grew up on the cattle ranch owned by his parents'. His family later moved to Southern California, where he began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942; later in films including The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette, and Meet Me in St. Louis.

Smith served in the United States Air Force. He has won the 200-pound (91 kg) arm-wrestling championship of the world multiple times and also won the United States Air Force weightlifting championship. Smith, a lifelong bodybuilder, was a pioneer in reverse-curling his own body weight. His trademark arms weighed in at 19+12 inches. Smith set a 31-1 record as an amateur boxer. During the Korean War Smith was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew under classified ferret missions over the Russian SFSR. He was said to be fluent in French, German, and Serbo-Croatian. He had both CIA and NSA clearances and wanted to work in a classified position with the US government, but while doing his doctorate work, he was offered an acting role with MGM.

Smith established himself as a prolific and versatile character actor with roles in a variety of genres from 1961 to 2014. Despite being frequently depicted as an anti-social character, he did a few roles as either a law enforcement officer or an anti-heroic protagonist. Danny Keller, a police sergeant, appeared on ABC's 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. In 1964, Bill, a ranch hand from the Shiloh Ranch, appeared in the syndicated television show The Virginian, as Bill. On the NBC western series Lavatory (1965–1967), Joe Riley, a well-natured Texas Ranger, was one of his first leading roles. On James Arness' long-lived western Gunsmoke, Jude Bonner appeared as Jude Bonner in 1967.

In "The Realization" (1969), an episode of Death Valley Days, Smith was played as John Richard Parker, brother of Cynthia Ann Parker. Parker, the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche soldiers, but Yolanda, his future Mexican wife, is rescued by his future Mexican wife, Emily Banks). In the 1969 film "The Restless One," Hendry Brown played the outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown. Brown takes the job of sheriff to tame a lawless place in a tale line, but he soon returns to his violent outlaw ways in search of bigger thrills.

Smith appeared in "Hostage!" in 1972. Amanda Blake's character, Miss Kitty Russell, is defeated and rapes Amanda Blake's character, and she fires her twice in the back. Smith has been dubbed the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time."

Detective James "Kimo" Carew, a new officer in Hawaii Five-O's final season, was among the cast members. In Stoney Burke, he had appeared before with Jack Lord. In the Buck Rogers' "Buck's Duel to the Death" series, Smith appeared in one episode of each of the Adam West Batman television series (in the episode "Minerva, Mayhem, and Millionaires) as Adonis, one of the minions of the title guest villainess portrayed by Zsa Gabor), I Dream of Jeannie (I Dream of Jeannie). Smith appeared in "Backlash of the Hunter," a 1974 two-hour pilot starring Lindsay Wagner and Bill Mumy), and George Peppard in "The A-Team is Coming" and "The A-Team Is Coming" (in two separate scenes).

Anthony Falconetti, the Jordache family's nemesis, was portrayed by him in the 1976 television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, Second Edition. The Kolchak episode "The Energy Eater" as an Indian medicine man who advises Kolchak, as well as the early Six Million Dollar Man episode "Survival of the Fittest" as Commander Maxwell were among the 1970s TV appearances. In an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard as John Wilson, a bounty hunter employed by Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane to put the Duke Boys into prison, and in an episode of Knight Rider as Harold Turner, the manipulative head of a tumultuous biker group whose David Hasselhoff's character Michael Knight must outsmart.

Smith appeared in several cult films from the early seventies on the big screen. In 1970, Smith played a much heavier Terry Bartell in Darker than Amber. Rod Taylor hit Smith (who was playing the villain), who retaliated in kind, and a staged-fight scene erupted, and the film's fist fight scene became a real fight as the cameras went. Taylor was "a very tough guy" who cracked three of his ribs while breaking Taylor's nose, according to Smith later.

Smith appeared in two biker movies in 1970 (originally released under the name "The Losers") co-starring Bernie Hamilton and C.C. Ann-Margret, Joe Namath, Jennifer Billingsley, and Sid Haig, the latter of which was produced by Seymour Robbie and written by Ann-Margret's husband, actor Roger Smith, was written by Ann-Margret's husband, actor Roger Smith. In 1972's Grave of the Vampire as James Eastman, co-starring Michael Pataki and Lyn Peters, and 1973's Invasion of the Bee Girls (starring Ms. Saylor, Bruce Watson, and Katie Saylor, directed by Denis Sanders), as well as 1975's The Swing Barmaids (starring Ms. Watson and Laura Hippe). He appeared in two popular Blaxplosion films, Hammer and the unpopularly named Boss Nigger, respectively in 1972 and 1975, both with Fred Williamson. Ken Nichols, a charming swindler who may be a point of concern in Columbo's murder probe, appeared in a Columbo episode "The Greenhouse Jungle" in 1972 as Ken Nichols, a handsome swindler who may be a person of concern in Columbo's murder probe. In 1981's Any Which Way You Can (1979) with Richard and Maria Bruton, a drag-racing legend in Fast Company (1979), Claudia Jennings and John Saxon, the main character's father, and Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckle rival in Conan the Barbarian (1979), Smith appeared alongside Gene Wilder and Richard Widmark, a starring John Saxon (a sequel to 1978's Any Which Way You Can, although in 1979) a he a's Any Which Way You Can (1977) with Ben Smith (a,'se in 1981) and Richard Widing'se (1980) and Richard starring Richard Havocal actor in Conan'se, 1980's In 1979) and Henry Ford's, Jr.

Smith appeared in two Francis Ford Coppola films as a store clerk and as a police officer in Rumble Fish in 1983. In director Richard Brooks' last film, Fever Pitch (1985), opposite Ryan O'Neal, Smith landed the leading role in Brodie Hollister in the short-lived Disney Western series Wildside, created by writer-producer Tom Greene, and another as the bookmaker's strongarm enforcer known simply as "Panama Hat." Despite the fact that Smith resigned from film in 2014 with his last film appearance, he did make a cameo appearance in the Steve Carell comedy Irresistible (2020).

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