![]() ![]() His wife, Joanne Cervelli Smith, confirmed his passing to the Hollywood Reporter. William Smith, the iconic tough-guy actor in “Hawaii Five-O” and “Laredo,” died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. Treat Williams was ‘alert and answering questions’ before motorbike crash death: witness Hawaii Five-O ( 20 episodes) as Det.‘Breaking Bad’ actor Mike Batayeh’s final film ‘really hit my heart,’ director saysĢ-time Oscar winner-turned-UK politician dead at 87Ĭarrie Fisher’s ‘magical’ final film gets release date 7 years after death Here Come the Brides ( 1 episode) as Kitana Three Guns for Texas as Texas Ranger Joe Riley The Over-the-Hill Gang as Amos (as Bill Smith)īacktrack! as Texas Ranger Joe Riley (archive footage) The Thing with Two Heads as Hysterical Condemned Man The Streets of San Francisco ( 1 episode) Prologue to Wounded Knee as Camper John Allen The Six Million Dollar Man ( 1 episode) as Cmdr. Kolchak: The Night Stalker ( 1 episode) as Jim Elkhorn The Rockford Files ( 2 episodes) as Jerry Grimes Rich Man, Poor Man ( 0 episodes) as Falconetti ![]() Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II ( 22 episodes) as Falconetti The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes as Tolarīuck Rogers in the 25th Century ( 1 episode) as The Treborįast Company as Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnsonīlackjack as Andy Mayfield (as Bill Smith) Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang as Monk Hardwick The A-Team ( 1 episode) as Dimitri Shasta Kovich ( 1 episode) as Jase Tataro Neville SigersonĪirwolf ( 1 episode) as Patterson ( 1 episode) as Steele Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode) as Clyde Thorson Hell on the Battleground as Colonel Meredith Hell Comes to Frogtown as Captain Devlin / Count Sodom Return of the Roller Blade Seven as Pharoah Walker, Texas Ranger ( 1 episode) as Silas Quint Legend of The Roller Blade Seven as Pharoah The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula as Count DraculaĬonan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' as Conan's Father (archive footage)īeyond Belief: Fact or Fiction ( 1 episode) as Wes Tronker (segment "Devil's Tattoo") Justice League ( 2 episodes) as Draaga (voice) The Boneyard Collection as Bill, the First Director (segment "Her Morbid Desires")įall Guy: The John Stewart Story as Man with Machine Gun Rock n' Roll Cops Lite as Rinaldi (archive footage) Smith has been described as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time".ĭoses of Horror as Neil Agar ("A Dose of Bee Stings" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited) 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. 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. He played outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown in the 1969 episode "The Restless Man". 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). 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 1967, Smith guest starred as Jude Bonner on James Arness's long-lived western Gunsmoke. One of his earliest leading roles was as Joe Riley, a Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo. He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. He held a BA from Syracuse and an MA in Russian Studies from UCLA.īorn 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. 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". ![]()
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