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 good-natured Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo (1965–1967). In 1964, he appeared in the episode "The Rope of Lies" as Bill, a ranch hand from the Shiloh Ranch in the syndicated television series The Virginian. He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. Although often typecast as an anti-social personality, he sporadically got other kinds of roles as a law enforcement officer or an anti-heroic protagonist. In the years from 1961 to 2014, Smith established himself as a highly prolific and profoundly talented character actor with roles in a diverse range of genres. ![]() ![]() He was reportedly also fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. A fluent Russian speaker, during the Korean War Smith was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR. Smith held a 31–1 record as an amateur boxer. His trademark arms measured as much as 19 + 1⁄ 2 inches. A lifelong bodybuilder, Smith was a record holder for reverse-curling his own body weight. 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. His family later moved to Southern California, where he began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942 entering films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Smith was born on March 24, 1933, in Columbia, Missouri, to William Emmett Smith and Emily Richards Smith, and grew up on the cattle ranch owned by his parents. ![]()
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