6.0
Irresistible
2020
William Smith
Acting
Born March 24, 1933Died July 5, 2021Columbia, 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".
Movies
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3.8
Doses of Horror
2018
0.0
Rock n' Roll Cops Lite
2014
5.3
The Boneyard Collection
2008
3.9
Rapturious
2007
Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
8.0
Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
2007
Voices from the Graves
0.0
Voices from the Graves
2006
Inner Rage
5.7
Inner Rage
2006
6.5
Hell to Pay
2005
Killer Story
5.7
Killer Story
2004
4.3
Y.M.I.
2004
9.0
The Rock 'n Roll Cops
2003
9.0
A Mission to Kill
2003
3.2
Zombiegeddon
2003
3.7
God Has a Rap Sheet
2003
2.7
Deadly Memories
2002
5.8
The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula
2001
The Vampire Hunters Club
8.0
The Vampire Hunters Club
2001
8.0
Vice
2000
6.8
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
2000
4.0
Never Look Back
2000
4.2
Debbie Does Damnation
1999
6.0
Wasteland Justice
1999
8.0
Blood of His Own
1998
5.3
Broken Vessels
1998
3.5
Heat of Las Vegas
1998
4.8
The Shooter
1997
3.8
Hollywood Cops
1997
4.6
Doublecross on Costa's Island
1997
4.9
Uncle Sam
1996
7.5
The Colony
1996
9.0
Neon Signs
1996
10.0
Raw Energy
1996
3.2
Big Sister 2000
1995
4.3
Manosaurus
1994
6.9
Maverick
1994
8.0
Taken Alive
1994
4.2
GetEven
1993
4.6
Legend of The Roller Blade Seven
1993
4.7
Return of the Roller Blade Seven
1993
7.5
American Me
1992
4.6
The Last Riders
1992
4.8
Feast
1992
4.7
Shadow of the Dragon
1992
5.0
Dark Secrets
1992
3.2
The Roller Blade Seven
1991
3.2
Cybernator
1991
Hard Time Romance
6.0
Hard Time Romance
1991
6.2
Spirit of the Eagle
1991
6.5
Kiss and Be Killed
1991
Merchant of Evil
7.0
Merchant of Evil
1991
4.8
The Final Sanction
1990
2.7
Empire of Ash III
1990
3.6
Cartel
1990
7.5
Emperor of the Bronx
1990
4.8
Instant Karma
1990
9.0
Forgotten Heroes
1990
5.3
Slow Burn
1989
4.5
B.O.R.N.
1989
4.2
Jungle Assault
1989
5.0
East L.A. Warriors
1989
4.4
L.A. Vice
1989
4.0
Terror in Beverly Hills
1989
6.1
Deadly Breed
1989
5.6
Action U.S.A.
1989
4.2
Memorial Valley Massacre
1988
3.8
Evil Altar
1988
5.5
Platoon Leader
1988
6.1
Maniac Cop
1988
3.6
Red Nights
1988
5.0
Bulletproof
1988
5.5
Hell Comes to Frogtown
1988
10.0
Eagle's Law
1988
3.6
Moon in Scorpio
1987
3.7
The Phantom Empire
1987
3.8
Commando Squad
1987
4.2
Hell on the Battleground
1987
10.0
The Badd One
1987
6.1
Eye of the Tiger
1986
4.3
Fever Pitch
1985
6.2
The Mean Season
1985
6.3
Red Dawn
1984
4.5
The Jerk, Too
1984
7.0
Rumble Fish
1983
7.2
The Outsiders
1983
6.8
Conan the Barbarian
1982
4.5
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
5.8
Any Which Way You Can
1980
7.4
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
1980
5.8
Seven
1979
6.1
The Frisco Kid
1979
5.1
Fast Company
1979
4.5
Blackjack
1978
4.7
Blood & Guts
1978
6.5
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
4.4
Scorchy
1976
4.9
Hollywood Man
1976
7.5
Crackle of Death
1976
4.0
Dr. Minx
1975
5.7
The Ultimate Warrior
1975
6.7
Boss Nigger
1975
4.7
The Swinging Barmaids
1975
4.9
Death Among Friends
1975
8.0
Win, Place or Steal
1975
4.0
The Sex Symbol
1974
5.0
Black Samson
1974
10.0
The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter
1974
4.4
Policewomen
1974
6.0
The Deadly Trackers
1973
5.7
The Last American Hero
1973
4.7
Invasion of the Bee Girls
1973
7.0
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
1973
8.0
Prologue to Wounded Knee
1973
6.5
A Taste of Hell
1973
3.9
Piranha
1972
5.6
Grave of the Vampire
1972
4.9
The Thing with Two Heads
1972
5.4
Hammer
1972
8.0
The Man Hunter
1972
5.6
Chrome and Hot Leather
1971
5.9
Crowhaven Farm
1970
5.5
C.C. and Company
1970
6.4
Darker Than Amber
1970
6.0
Angels Die Hard
1970
4.8
The Losers
1970
5.8
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
6.0
Backtrack!
1969
4.2
Run, Angel, Run!
1969
6.7
Three Guns for Texas
1968
7.1
36 Hours
1964
6.8
Mail Order Bride
1964
5.1
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1961
6.9
The Gazebo
1959
5.5
Never So Few
1959
3.7
Girls Town
1959
6.5
Ask Any Girl
1959
6.4
The Mating Game
1959
6.2
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
6.2
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
7.5
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947
7.5
Gilda
1946
7.5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
7.0
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
6.7
Going My Way
1944
5.8
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
TV Shows
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8.2
Justice League
7.3
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
6.6
Nash Bridges
7.6
Due South
7.0
Walker, Texas Ranger
8.0
Vinnie & Bobby
7.0
Shades of L.A.
6.3
Supercarrier
7.7
The Twilight Zone
6.8
Wildside
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
7.4
Highway to Heaven
7.1
Hunter
7.1
Hunter
7.6
Airwolf
7.6
Airwolf
5.4
The Master
7.5
Masquerade
6.7
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
7.6
The Yellow Rose
6.5
Hardcastle and McCormick
7.5
The A-Team
7.5
The A-Team
7.5
Knight Rider
6.3
Matt Houston
6.5
T. J. Hooker
6.7
Simon & Simon
6.7
Simon & Simon
7.6
The Fall Guy
7.0
Code Red
6.6
Trapper John, M.D.
7.1
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
7.0
Benson
10.0
The Rebels
5.5
B. J. and the Bear
7.0
Vega$
6.5
Fantasy Island
5.7
The Oregon Trail
6.8
Logan's Run
6.8
CHiPs
8.3
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
5.6
City of Angels
7.9
Rich Man, Poor Man
6.8
Bronk
6.9
Planet of the Apes
7.7
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
6.5
Police Woman
6.2
Movin' On
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
7.0
Police Story
7.7
Kung Fu
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
7.1
Search
8.1
Columbo
6.9
Alias Smith and Jones
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
6.9
Here Come the Brides
6.1
The Mod Squad
6.1
The Mod Squad
6.4
Julia
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
6.4
Custer
6.5
The Second Hundred Years
6.8
Ironside
6.8
Ironside
7.6
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Mission: Impossible
6.5
Felony Squad
7.3
Batman
7.8
I Dream of Jeannie
6.4
Laredo
7.0
Daniel Boone
7.0
Daniel Boone
7.0
Daniel Boone
7.0
Daniel Boone
6.5
Kraft Suspense Theatre
6.0
Zero One
8.0
Combat!
8.0
Combat!
6.8
Stoney Burke
7.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
5.0
The Asphalt Jungle
6.7
Mr. Lucky
7.0
The Ed Wynn Show
7.7
Perry Mason
6.6
Wagon Train
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
6.3
Lassie
6.6
Death Valley Days
6.6