So what are we doing here? I won’t speak for you, but I’m trying to convince myself it’s even theoretically possible to cast an actor who is spot-on right for this role. By the time it happens, if it happens, almost anyone we might think of who is the right age now could be out of the running. Smith played Count Dracula in 'The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula'.To be honest, I don’t believe there are going to be any more attempts to adapt any of the Parker novels for a long time to come. He also starred in Nam's Angels, which is briefly seen on a television in a scene in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction. and Co., where he starred as the menacing "Moon", opposite football great Joe Namath and Ann Margret. Smith also played in several biker flicks including C.C. But, his starring roles typically had titles such as Grave of the Vampire, Invasion of the Bee Girls, and The Swinging Barmaids. He also played Jed Clayton in Boss Nigger (1975) a blaxploitation film from the 70s which also starred Fred Williamson, and was seen in in Francis Ford Coppola's classic 1983 films The Outsiders and Rumble Fish as a store clerk and a police officer, respectively. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, Smith did a turn as chief heavy Terry Bartell in Darker Than Amber, opposite Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel, in 1970. On film, Smith played Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckle nemesis Jack Wilson in Any Which Way You Can, as a drag racing legend in 1979's "Fast Company", as the barbarian's father in Conan the Barbarian, bad guy Matt Diggs in The Frisco Kid, as a Russian commander in Red Dawn and a vindictive sergeant in Twilight's Last Gleaming. In the 1976 television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, Smith portrayed Anthony Falconetti, nemesis to the Jordache family.
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Smith has also made guest appearances in numerous TV shows including the 1974 pilot for The Rockford Files, "Backlash of the Hunter", I Dream of Jeannie, and two appearances - as different characters - in episodes ofThe A-Team (the first season's "Pros and Cons", and season four's "The A-Team Is Coming, The A-Team Is Coming"). He also 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". Smith was added to the cast on the final season of Jack Lord's long-running crime drama Hawaii Five-O. Smith played Jude Bohner in a 1972 two-hour episode of CBS's Gunsmoke as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time". In 1967, Smith guest starred on Wayne Maunder's short-lived ABC military-western Custer. Smith character was good-natured co-star Peter Brown's character was a ladies' man, and Neville Brand portrayed a relentless bumbler.
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One of his earliest leading roles was as Joe Riley, a Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo (1965–1967). 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.
During 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. He taught Russian at UCLA before abandoning his Ph.D.
Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse and a Master's degree in Russian Studies from UCLA. He entered films stunt doubling for former screen Tarzan Lex Barker in a French film. Smith 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. His trademark arms measured 18 and 1/2 inches. Smith is a record holder for reverse-curling his own bodyweight. Smith won the 200 pound (91 kg) arm-wrestling championship of the world multiple times and also won the United States Air Force weightlifting championship.
The physically imposing 6'2" actor is a lifelong bodybuilder and has the distinction of being the final Marlboro Man before the cigarette ads were discontinued on TV. Smith began his acting career at the age of 8 in 1942. William Smith (born March 24, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in almost 300 feature films and television productions.
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