William Smith

William Smith

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Birthday: 
24 March 1933, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Height: 
188 cm
Biker, bare-knuckle brawler, cowboy, Bee-Girl fighter, vampire hunter . . . William Smith has done it all. He was born on March 24, 1933, in Columbia, Missouri, on Rolling Acres, a Hereford cattle ranch. After losing everything to the dust bowl, the family moved to California. From 1942, when he was eight, through young adulthood, Bill appeared in ... Show more »
Biker, bare-knuckle brawler, cowboy, Bee-Girl fighter, vampire hunter . . . William Smith has done it all. He was born on March 24, 1933, in Columbia, Missouri, on Rolling Acres, a Hereford cattle ranch. After losing everything to the dust bowl, the family moved to California. From 1942, when he was eight, through young adulthood, Bill appeared in many movies as an extra (uncredited). After high school, he joined the Air Force and served during the Korean War and flew secret ferret missions over Russia while in the NSA. He studied at the University of Munich, and Syracuse University. He graduated cum laude at UCLA. Bill would go on to become one of Hollywood's best-known character actors, with over 300 TV and movie credits. On TV he played in many westerns (did his own horseback riding), cop and sci-fi shows. He's best remembered for appearing in Batman (1966) as, appropriately, Adonis in the last episode. He was a series regular in Hawaii Five-O (1968), where he played Det. James "Kimo" Carew (the episode with Cathy Lee Crosby, "The Kahuna," drew particularly high ratings). On the big screen, Bill is legendary for biker flicks (he does his own motorcycle riding). His first biker flick, Run, Angel, Run! (1969), was shot in 13 days for under $100,000--and made $13 million! This was followed by Angels Die Hard (1970). These early, ground-breaking features defined the genre, and would be imitated endlessly (but never duplicated). In the early 1970s, Bill got into horror films--playing a vampire slayer in Grave of the Vampire (1972)--and science fiction, in the camp classic Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973), where he fought killer insect-women wearing sunglasses. Just about everybody's favorite William Smith movie, though, is Any Which Way You Can (1980), where as a bare-knuckle brawler he had a knock-down, drag-out fight with Clint Eastwood that wrecked about half the town. Tougher than Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill played his dad in Conan the Barbarian (1982), and was one of the few actors in the wildly popular, but critically lambasted, youth-oriented Red Dawn (1984) to receive any recognition from critics. He was in what could be called a textbook example of low-budget, campy sci-fi, Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988). Just about everybody who has ever worked with Bill speaks highly of him. He's educated, intelligent and energetic. A true legend in the business, Bill's acting career is still going strong in 2006, well into the 64th year of his career. Show less «

William Smith's FILMOGRAPHY

Danger Bay - Season 3

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Murder, She Wrote - Season 2

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Murder, She Wrote - Season 3

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 4

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Simon and Simon - Season 6

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Hunter - Season 3 (1984)

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Riptide - Season 1

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Riptide - Season 2

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Eye of the Tiger

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The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985)

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The A-Team - Season 4

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Danger Bay - Season 1

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Benson - Season 7

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The Fall Guy - Season 5

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Simon and Simon - Season 5

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 3

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Knight Rider - Season 4

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Hunter - Season 2 (1984)

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Riptide - Season 3

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Airwolf - Season 3

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Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3

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Trapper John, M.D. - Season 7

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Matt Houston - Season 2

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William Smith'S roles

Store Clerk
Store Clerk
Jack Wilson
Jack Wilson
Conan's Father
Conan's Father
Major Flynn
Major Flynn
Captain Ripley
Captain Ripley
Major
Major
Riverboat Poker Player
Riverboat Poker Player
Patterson the Cop
Patterson the Cop
Strelnikov
Strelnikov
Captain of the Guard
Captain of the Guard
Draaga
Draaga