#WILLIAM SMITH ACTOR YOUNG SERIES#

In 1985 Smith beat out some tough competition (including Sam Elliott) in the much sought after starring role of Brodie Hollister in Disney’s critically acclaimed mini-series 'Wildside', created by writer-producer Tom Greene. Coltrane to frame the Duke Boys into jail. He also appeared in the 1979 miniseries The Rebels as John Waverly, and in an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard as Jason Steele, a bounty hunter hired by Sheriff Rosco P. He made an appearance in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode 'The Energy Eater', as an Indian medicine man who advises Kolchak. In the 1976 television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man, he portrayed Anthony Falconetti, nemesis of the Jordache family, and reprised the role in the sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. Smith also made guest appearances in the 1974 pilot for The Rockford Files, 'Backlash of the Hunter', I Dream of Jeannie, and two appearances - as different characters - in episodes of The A-Team (the first season's 'Pros and Cons', and season four's 'The A-Team Is Coming, The A-Team Is Coming'). Smith starred in one episode of Kung Fu, and as The Treybor, a ruthless warlord, in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode 'Buck's Duel to the Death'.

#WILLIAM SMITH ACTOR YOUNG SERIES#

He had previously appeared with Jack Lord in Lord's prior series Stoney Burke. Smith joined the cast of the final season of Hawaii Five-O as Detective James 'Kimo' Carew, a new officer in the Five-O unit. Smith has been described as the 'greatest bad-guy character actor of our time'. On Gunsmoke, Smith appears 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. Smith also played the 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. Smith's character was good-natured with muscles of steel. One of his earliest leading roles was as Joe Riley, a Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo (1965–1967). He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. government, but his marriage to a French actress meant the loss of security clearance. He had both CIA and NSA clearance and intended to enter a classified position with the U.S. ĭuring the Korean War he was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over Russia. Smith is fluent in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French and German. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Munich while learning languages through the military. studies for a MGM contract and stunt doubling for the former Tarzan Lex Barker in the 1958 French film The Strange Awakening. He taught Russian at UCLA before abandoning his Ph.D.

Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University and a Master's degree in Russian Studies from UCLA. He also played semi-pro football in Germany and competed in motocross and downhill skiing events. Smith held a 31-1 record as an amateur boxer and studied martial arts with kenpo instructor Ed Parker for several years. Smith is a record holder for reverse-curling his own bodyweight. 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. Smith is a lifelong bodybuilder and has the distinction of being the final Marlboro Man before cigarette advertising was discontinued on television. 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.

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