Never have we found a better badass. Smaller non-athletes like Stallone were always comparative pretenders, whose rabid followers never knew anything better. One of the coolest dudes ever seen onscreen.
@Bill@Smith LOOKS like he should be powerfully Built! He carries it BETTER than Most. Look at Schwarznegger,he looks like Fucken @Howdy@Doody ! Muscles do NOT equal a "Tough Guy" necessarily.
William Smith was perfect in this movie. Not surprising since he's one of the greatest actors of all time. I'm currently watching Rich Man Poor Man and he does an excellent job playing the scumbag Falconetti. A friend of mine saw Smith at a convention and said he was an incredibly nice guy.
Actually Bill Smith Playing a jailhouse Queer on RMPM made him SO popular he was on Hollywood squares and did RMPM book 2 as a Highly billed Credit. I DOUBT he would have done ANY Queer Shit like on that Bullshit HBO show OZ!
he was stereotyped.started as as a good man on laredo and after was put as a goon after, and he pullled it off.did,nt like when he played a queer who was a pred. in richman poor man,but any actor who can make you hate him to the fact where someone tries to shoot you, than that man is truly an actor1!
Im black but i grew up lovin' this movie. And Joe Namouth. You can't underestiimate the power of a man's hands. The jawbreaking power of God, might lurk beneath them. I like the guy with waterbed in his van. ILMAO when the bbw made the water come out. William Smith was a Beast, every time he spoke you knew it was bad news,that true Bar fight ruffian image in blue jeans.
Smith said in an interview that he was actually surprised at how big and strong Namath was. Hope he gets around to writng a book about his career someday soon!
Its funny,every time I see Big Bill Smith playing a villain & he gets into a fight with the "good guy,"I can never really buy the fact that BBS couldn't pulverize the other guy for real. That's why they call it acting.
@theironclads I agree. Same thing when Bruce Lee was supposed to get beaten by Robin in the Batman series. C'mon! Anyway, the only movie where where Smith getting beat seemed even remotely plausible, had to be in "Any Which Way you Can" by Clint Eastwood. I mean, if Smith has to get "beat up" by somebody, I can't think of a better/cooler dude to do it than, Philo Beddoe/Clint Eastwood. No shame in getting beat by Clint, right? :-) BTW, I completely forgot Smith played Conan's father!
@spacepatrolman I've seen Schwarzenegger up close, he's an A-1 ahole in real life. Smith would've been a better Conan or any movie that Schwarzenegger was in.
@hardcorehouse Yea i know some guys that know weider who sponsered the mr. universe competitions they said the same thing another guy had frank zane in his health food store he said he was inzane
@spacepatrolman Watch any movie with Schwarzenegger showing his physique and he's tensing the entire time-CORNY. Smith was much more believable as someone I would not want to walk in to. Just a coincidence he's appearing as part of a festival here in Phoenix this weekend and I hope to see him in person.
@bambarn5678 absolutely> I met him at a convention8 yrs ago--> I told hilm that, in real life, he'd've beaten the hell out of eastwood in the movie 'Any Which way You Can.' Smith laughed --and let it go at that. He also volunteered that, of all the actors he workd, James Garner was the very nicest and most generous. Smith was a master linguist--worked for the gov't and taught Russian --I believe--at UCLA.
@bambarn5678 he said when he was makeing a biker movie a motorcycle gang thought they were invadeing their turf he said were makeing a movie they didnt get it he had to beat them up to make them understand
Speaks 5 languaStill ,ges, and has a CIA, NSA clearence!! Still alive...77
207nkf 1 week ago
Later, Namath kicks his ass.
Cydonia 3 weeks ago
@Bill @Smith makes Sissies out of ALL other actots he shares the screen with!
bugsmoran100 2 months ago
amen!!
REXOMIX 2 months ago
Never have we found a better badass. Smaller non-athletes like Stallone were always comparative pretenders, whose rabid followers never knew anything better. One of the coolest dudes ever seen onscreen.
hardcorehouse 7 months ago 4
@Bill @Smith LOOKS like he should be powerfully Built! He carries it BETTER than Most. Look at Schwarznegger,he looks like Fucken @Howdy @Doody ! Muscles do NOT equal a "Tough Guy" necessarily.
FTWEVERYONE 8 months ago 10
Anytime I watch a movie with Bill Smith playing the "bad guy", I find myself cheering for the "bad guy"! Just because it's Bill!
dln626 8 months ago 10
@Bill @Smith as a "Body builder" and HUGE...carried his physique naturally,Schwarzennger is a chump and a @MORON !
FTWEVERYONE 8 months ago 11
hahahha What a Dynamite line: "In this MERRY Land" hahahaha....
ILLKICKALUNGOUTTAYA 8 months ago 12
William Smith was perfect in this movie. Not surprising since he's one of the greatest actors of all time. I'm currently watching Rich Man Poor Man and he does an excellent job playing the scumbag Falconetti. A friend of mine saw Smith at a convention and said he was an incredibly nice guy.
stocksystm 10 months ago 10
Big @BILL as essentially a "Bad Guy" HAS to lose in the end,THAT is 'Hollywood"
FTWEVERYONE 10 months ago 13
Actually Bill Smith Playing a jailhouse Queer on RMPM made him SO popular he was on Hollywood squares and did RMPM book 2 as a Highly billed Credit. I DOUBT he would have done ANY Queer Shit like on that Bullshit HBO show OZ!
FTWEVERYONE 11 months ago
he was stereotyped.started as as a good man on laredo and after was put as a goon after, and he pullled it off.did,nt like when he played a queer who was a pred. in richman poor man,but any actor who can make you hate him to the fact where someone tries to shoot you, than that man is truly an actor1!
fightingfrenchman 11 months ago
i love jennifer billingsley's bellybutton in this movie!!
ilovebellydancers21 1 year ago
Bill is the "King of Bad-Ass" ;-)
Joez86 1 year ago
bill smith is a good actor but joe namath looks like he's half asleep
TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
WHAT A SHOWDOWN THIS WAS.SMITH/NAMETH
diagreen 1 year ago
i met william smith nice guy
CARDMAN365 1 year ago
puerco falconetti
godineskiko 1 year ago
He played a mean sob in Rich Man Poor Man. His character's name was Falconetti.
joclance22 1 year ago
Moon und seine Trabanten erwarten Dich vor dem Thron...
migumusi 1 year ago
You know it sucks to get punched by a man that can stand flat-footed and throw a football 75 yards broadway joe greatest
yohncolt 1 year ago
Im black but i grew up lovin' this movie. And Joe Namouth. You can't underestiimate the power of a man's hands. The jawbreaking power of God, might lurk beneath them. I like the guy with waterbed in his van. ILMAO when the bbw made the water come out. William Smith was a Beast, every time he spoke you knew it was bad news,that true Bar fight ruffian image in blue jeans.
KeemLegendPA 2 years ago
Smith said in an interview that he was actually surprised at how big and strong Namath was. Hope he gets around to writng a book about his career someday soon!
anthony1962 2 years ago
Smith had the most impressive arms in screen history.
BufordStone 2 years ago
Its funny,every time I see Big Bill Smith playing a villain & he gets into a fight with the "good guy,"I can never really buy the fact that BBS couldn't pulverize the other guy for real. That's why they call it acting.
theironclads 2 years ago
@theironclads I agree. Same thing when Bruce Lee was supposed to get beaten by Robin in the Batman series. C'mon! Anyway, the only movie where where Smith getting beat seemed even remotely plausible, had to be in "Any Which Way you Can" by Clint Eastwood. I mean, if Smith has to get "beat up" by somebody, I can't think of a better/cooler dude to do it than, Philo Beddoe/Clint Eastwood. No shame in getting beat by Clint, right? :-) BTW, I completely forgot Smith played Conan's father!
gjc82071 1 year ago
William Smith is a bad ass and cool MF!!!!!
xkalybr 2 years ago
Beat Schwarzenegger in arm wrestling on the set of Conan; a compelling actor who was completely under-rated and largely forgotten
hardcorehouse 2 years ago 5
@hardcorehouse schwarzenegger is a steroid inflated douche bag
spacepatrolman 10 months ago
@spacepatrolman I've seen Schwarzenegger up close, he's an A-1 ahole in real life. Smith would've been a better Conan or any movie that Schwarzenegger was in.
hardcorehouse 10 months ago
@hardcorehouse Yea i know some guys that know weider who sponsered the mr. universe competitions they said the same thing another guy had frank zane in his health food store he said he was inzane
spacepatrolman 10 months ago
@spacepatrolman Watch any movie with Schwarzenegger showing his physique and he's tensing the entire time-CORNY. Smith was much more believable as someone I would not want to walk in to. Just a coincidence he's appearing as part of a festival here in Phoenix this weekend and I hope to see him in person.
hardcorehouse 10 months ago
@hardcorehouse yea cool he makes appearances at autograph conventions that they advertise in reel times magazine
spacepatrolman 10 months ago 2
MET HIM NICE GUY.
CARDMAN365 2 years ago 2
William smith,the baddest cat EVER on screen,and a decorated Korean war hero..great man,great actor.BETTER than 99% of them ALL!
bambarn5678 2 years ago 32
@bambarn5678 "Jack Wilson" from "Any which way you can". Classic movie!
gjc82071 1 year ago
@bambarn5678 absolutely> I met him at a convention8 yrs ago--> I told hilm that, in real life, he'd've beaten the hell out of eastwood in the movie 'Any Which way You Can.' Smith laughed --and let it go at that. He also volunteered that, of all the actors he workd, James Garner was the very nicest and most generous. Smith was a master linguist--worked for the gov't and taught Russian --I believe--at UCLA.
TheClam88 11 months ago
@bambarn5678 he said when he was makeing a biker movie a motorcycle gang thought they were invadeing their turf he said were makeing a movie they didnt get it he had to beat them up to make them understand
spacepatrolman 10 months ago
@bambarn5678 @BILL @SMITH is BETTER than 110% of them ALL!
FTWEVERYONE 9 months ago 17
@FTWEVERYONE The "rest" of them are FAGGOTS!
ILLKICKALUNGOUTTAYA 8 months ago 9