In 1964, he appeared in the episode "The Rope of Lies" as Bill, a ranch hand from the Shiloh Ranch in the syndicated television series The Virginian. He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. Although often typecast as an anti-social personality, he sporadically got the opportunity to prove his effectiveness in other kinds of roles as a law enforcement officer or an anti-heroic protagonist. It had been while working on his doctorate that he was offered a contract from MGM, which would pave his career.įrom 1961 to 2014, Smith established himself as a highly prolific and profoundly talented character actor with roles in a diverse range of genres. He was reportedly also fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. A fluent Russian speaker with a Masters degree in the discipline from UCLA, during the Korean War Smith was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR. Smith held a 31–1 record as an amateur boxer. His trademark arms measured as much as 19 + 1⁄ 2 inches. A lifelong bodybuilder, Smith was a record holder for reverse-curling his own body weight. He 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 served in the United States Air Force. His family later moved to Southern California, where he began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942 entering films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Smith was born on March 24, 1933, in Columbia, Missouri, to William Emmett Smith and Emily (Richards) Smith, and grew up on the cattle ranch owned by his parents. Smith is also known for films like Any Which Way You Can (1980), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Rumble Fish (1983), and Red Dawn (1984), as well as lead roles in several exploitation films during the 1970s and 1990's. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. William Emmett Smith (Ma– July 5, 2021) was an American actor.
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