
William Smith
Born March 24, 1933 · Columbia, Missouri, USA
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".
Notable Appearances
Movies

Conan the Barbarian

The Outsiders

Red Dawn

Maverick

Rumble Fish

Meet Me in St. Louis

American Me

Gilda

Any Which Way You Can

Irresistible

Never So Few

Maniac Cop

The Mean Season

The Frisco Kid

Hell Comes to Frogtown

Twilight's Last Gleaming

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Eye of the Tiger

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

Boss Nigger

The Boy with Green Hair

The Last American Hero

The Shooter

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The Gazebo

36 Hours

Invasion of the Bee Girls

Going My Way

Grave of the Vampire

C.C. and Company

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

The Deadly Trackers

The Thing with Two Heads

The Ultimate Warrior

The Mating Game

B.O.R.N.

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

Uncle Sam

Mail Order Bride

Action U.S.A.

Chrome and Hot Leather

Zombiegeddon

Win, Place or Steal

Ask Any Girl

Seven

Commando Squad

Platoon Leader

Fast Company

The Over the Hill Gang

Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang

Legend of The Roller Blade Seven

Crowhaven Farm

Emperor of the Bronx

The Roller Blade Seven

The Losers

The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

Policewomen

The Phantom Empire

East L.A. Warriors

Memorial Valley Massacre

The Boneyard Collection

Empire of Ash III

The Swinging Barmaids

Bulletproof

Shadow of the Dragon

Three Guns for Texas

Evil Altar

Rapturious

Return of the Roller Blade Seven

Broken Vessels

Terror in Beverly Hills

Doublecross on Costa's Island

Hell on the Battleground

Girls Town

Black Samson

GetEven
TV Shows

Hawaii Five-O

Ironside

Knight Rider

Wagon Train

Mission: Impossible

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The A-Team

Batman

The Six Million Dollar Man

Nash Bridges

T. J. Hooker

The Virginian

Lassie

Highway to Heaven

Simon & Simon

Daniel Boone

Airwolf

Due South

The Twilight Zone

Hunter

I Dream of Jeannie

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Police Woman

Walker, Texas Ranger

Combat!

Fantasy Island

Matt Houston

Trapper John, M.D.

Gunsmoke

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

The Fall Guy

The Streets of San Francisco

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Vega$

Police Story

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Mod Squad

Benson

Felony Squad

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Alias Smith and Jones

Laredo

Justice League

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Hardcastle and McCormick

CHiPs

B. J. and the Bear

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Stoney Burke

Bronk

Mr. Lucky

Julia

Here Come the Brides

Rich Man, Poor Man

Planet of the Apes

The Wonderful World of Disney

Shades of L.A.

Logan's Run

The Second Hundred Years

Masquerade

Movin' On

Code Red

Custer

The Master

The Oregon Trail

The Yellow Rose

The Asphalt Jungle

Supercarrier

City of Angels

Search

Zero One

Wildside

The Rebels

Death Valley Days

The Ed Wynn Show

Vinnie & Bobby

Kung Fu
More Movies

Scorchy

Fever Pitch

L.A. Vice

Spirit of the Eagle

Taken Alive

The Sex Symbol

Kiss and Be Killed

Backtrack!

Darker Than Amber

Instant Karma

The Jerk, Too

Heat of Las Vegas

The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula

God Has a Rap Sheet

The Man Hunter

The Rock 'n Roll Cops

Hell to Pay

Debbie Does Damnation

Red Nights

Hammer

Crackle of Death

Blood & Guts

Cartel

Blood of His Own

Vice

Y.M.I.

A Taste of Hell

Doses of Horror

The Last Riders

Wasteland Justice

The Colony

Blackjack

Never Look Back

Death Among Friends

Hollywood Man

Neon Signs

Angels Die Hard

Rock n' Roll Cops Lite

Run, Angel, Run!

The Final Sanction

Moon in Scorpio

Deadly Breed

Feast

Prologue to Wounded Knee

The Badd One

Cybernator

Big Sister 2000

Sweet Jesus, Preacherman

Slow Burn

Dr. Minx

Hollywood Cops

Deadly Memories

Piranha

Jungle Assault

Runaway, Runaway

Raw Energy

Forgotten Heroes

Eagle's Law

A Mission to Kill

Dark Secrets




