William Smith
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
Irresistible
Hofbrau Bar Fly
Doses of Horror
Neil Agar ("A Dose of Bee Stings" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rock n' Roll Cops Lite
Rinaldi (archive footage)
The Boneyard Collection
Bill, the First Director (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Rapturious
Sheriff
Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
Man with Machine Gun
Voices from the Graves
Lester Jiggs
Inner Rage
Sam
Hell to Pay
Emil Brax
Killer Story
Monty
Y.M.I.
Cal
The Rock 'n Roll Cops
Rinaldi
A Mission to Kill
Zombiegeddon
Lord Zombie
God Has a Rap Sheet
Lucifer
Deadly Memories
Sheriff Taggart
The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula
Count Dracula
The Vampire Hunters Club
Johnny
Vice
Spooky Harlow
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Conan's Father (archive footage)
Never Look Back
Lee Clayton
Debbie Does Damnation
Wasteland Justice
Moon
Blood of His Own
Broken Vessels
Bo
Heat of Las Vegas
Mario Verelli
The Shooter
Jerry Krants
Hollywood Cops
Rinaldi
Doublecross on Costa's Island
L. E.
Uncle Sam
Major
The Colony
Theo Maxwell
Neon Signs
Clyde
Raw Energy
Sam Stompkins
Big Sister 2000
The Man
Manosaurus
Sheriff Todd
Maverick
Riverboat Poker Player
Taken Alive
L.E.
GetEven
Normad
Legend of The Roller Blade Seven
Pharoah
Return of the Roller Blade Seven
Pharoah
American Me
Deacon
The Last Riders
Hammer
Feast
Det. George Bordelli
Shadow of the Dragon
Eric Brunner
Dark Secrets
Robert
The Roller Blade Seven
Pharoah
Cybernator
Colonel Peck
Hard Time Romance
Spirit of the Eagle
Hatchett
Kiss and Be Killed
Det. Murdoch
Merchant of Evil
Victor Fortunetti
The Final Sanction
Maj. Galashkin
Empire of Ash III
Lucas
Cartel
Mason
Emperor of the Bronx
Fitz
Instant Karma
Pop
Forgotten Heroes
General Gregori Zelenkov
Slow Burn
Antonio Scarpelli
B.O.R.N.
Dr. Farley
Jungle Assault
General Mitchell
East L.A. Warriors
Martelli
L.A. Vice
Capt. Joe Wilkes
Terror In Beverly Hills
President
Deadly Breed
Captain
Action U.S.A.
Conover
Memorial Valley Massacre
Gen. Mintz
Evil Altar
Reed Weller
Platoon Leader
Major Flynn
Maniac Cop
Captain Ripley
Red Nights
Phillip
Bulletproof
Russian Major
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Captain Devlin / Count Sodom
Eagle's Law
Moon in Scorpio
Burt
The Phantom Empire
Dr. Chambers
Commando Squad
Morgan Denny
Hell on the Battleground
Colonel Meredith
The Badd One
Badd
Eye of the Tiger
Blade
Fever Pitch
Panama Hat
The Mean Season
Albert O'Shaughnessy
Red Dawn
Strelnikov
The Jerk, Too
Suicide
Rumble Fish
Patterson the Cop
The Outsiders
Store Clerk
Conan the Barbarian
Conan's Father
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Monk Hardwick
Any Which Way You Can
Jack Wilson
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
Tolar
Seven
Drew
The Frisco Kid
Matt Diggs
The Rebels
John Waverly
Fast Company
Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson
Blackjack
Andy Mayfield (as Bill Smith)
Blood & Guts
Dan O'Neil
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Hoxey
Scorchy
Carl Henrich
Hollywood Man
Rafe Stoker
Crackle of Death
Shaman Jim Elkhorn
Dr. Minx
Gus Dolan
The Ultimate Warrior
Carrot
Boss Nigger
Jed Clayton
The Swinging Barmaids
Harry
Death Among Friends
Sheldon Casey
Win, Place or Steal
Tom
The Sex Symbol
Butch Wischnewski
Black Samson
Johnny Nappa
The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter
Jerry Grimes
Policewomen
Karate Instructor
The Deadly Trackers
Schoolboy
The Last American Hero
Kyle Kingman
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Neil Agar
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Martelli
Prologue to Wounded Knee
Camper John Allen
A Taste of Hell
Jack Lowell
Piranha
Caribe
Grave of the Vampire
James Eastman
The Thing with Two Heads
Hysterical Condemned Man
Hammer
Brenner
The Man Hunter
Clel Bocock
Chrome and Hot Leather
T.J.
Runaway, Runaway
Frank
Crowhaven Farm
Patrolman Hayes
C.C. and Company
Moon
Darker Than Amber
Terry
Angels Die Hard
Tim
The Losers
Link Thomas
The Over the Hill Gang
Amos (as Bill Smith)
Backtrack!
Texas Ranger Joe Riley (archive footage)
Run, Angel, Run!
Angel
Three Guns for Texas
Texas Ranger Joe Riley
36 Hours
Guy (uncredited)
Mail Order Bride
Lank
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Captain of the Guard
The Gazebo
Actor Who Trips Over Camera (uncredited)
Never So Few
MP Officer #1
Girls Town
Man (uncredited)
The Mating Game
Barney
The Boy with Green Hair
Boy (uncredited)
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Young Boy (uncredited)
Gilda
Man (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Boy (uncredited)
Meet Me in St. Louis
Little Boy (uncredited)
Going My Way
Choir Member (uncredited)
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Boy (uncredited)
TV Series
Justice League
Draaga (voice)
2 Episodes
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Wes Tronker (segment "Devil's Tattoo")
1 Episode
Nash Bridges
Boris Zarkov
1 Episode
Due South
Harold Geiger
1 Episode
Walker, Texas Ranger
Silas Quint
1 Episode
Vinnie & Bobby
Warren Bean
1 Episode
Shades of L.A.
1 Episode
Supercarrier
1 Episode
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Shadow Play")
1 Episode
Wildside
6 Episodes
Murder, She Wrote
Clyde Thorson
1 Episode
Highway to Heaven
1 Episode
Hunter
Sgt. Neville Sigerson
1 Episode
Airwolf
Steele
1 Episode
The Master
Alan Kane
1 Episode
Masquerade
1 Episode
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1 Episode
The Yellow Rose
1 Episode
Hardcastle and McCormick
1 Episode
The A-Team
Jase Tataro
1 Episode
Knight Rider
Harold T. Turner
1 Episode
Matt Houston
J.D. Harris
1 Episode
T. J. Hooker
R.K. 'Blood' Henderson
1 Episode
Simon & Simon
1 Episode
The Fall Guy
2 Episodes
Code Red
2 Episodes
Trapper John, M.D.
Tugwell
1 Episode
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Trebor
1 Episode
Benson
1 Episode
B. J. and the Bear
2 Episodes
Vega$
1 Episode
Fantasy Island
Wyatt Earp
1 Episode
The Oregon Trail
1 Episode
Logan's Run
Patron / Modok
1 Episode
CHiPs
Stan
3 Episodes
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Falconetti
22 Episodes
City of Angels
1 Episode
Rich Man, Poor Man
Falconetti
12 Episodes
Bronk
1 Episode
Planet of the Apes
Tolar
1 Episode
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Jim Elkhorn
1 Episode
Police Woman
1 Episode
Movin' On
1 Episode
The Six Million Dollar Man
Cmdr. Maxwell
1 Episode
Police Story
1 Episode
Kung Fu
Capt. Luther Staggers
1 Episode
The Streets of San Francisco
Mickey Sims
1 Episode
Search
1 Episode
Columbo
Nichols
1 Episode
Alias Smith and Jones
1 Episode
Here Come the Brides
Kitana
1 Episode
The Mod Squad
2 Episodes
Hawaii Five-O
Det. James 'Kimo' Carew
20 Episodes
Julia
1 Episode
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1 Episode
Custer
1 Episode
The Second Hundred Years
Joe
1 Episode
Ironside
1 Episode
Mission: Impossible
Vincent Sandler
1 Episode
Felony Squad
1 Episode
Batman
Adonis
1 Episode
I Dream of Jeannie
Turk
1 Episode
Laredo
Joe Riley
57 Episodes
Daniel Boone
Catoga
2 Episodes
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Deputy Raynor
1 Episode
Zero One
Jimmy Delaney
39 Episodes
Combat!
Richter
1 Episode
Stoney Burke
Lieutenant Joe Cardiff
1 Episode
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Tommy Lad
1 Episode
The Virginian
Andy Adams
1 Episode
The Asphalt Jungle
Sgt. Danny Keller
14 Episodes
Mr. Lucky
1 Episode
The Ed Wynn Show
Dink
1 Episode
Perry Mason
Andy Witcoe
1 Episode
Wagon Train
Thomas Lance
1 Episode
Gunsmoke
Jude Bonner
1 Episode
The Wonderful World of Disney
Monk Hardwick
1 Episode
Lassie
1 Episode
Death Valley Days
Marshall Hendry Brown
1 Episode