William Smithers

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Although character actor William (or Bill) Smithers is not recognizable perhaps by name, the face is definitely familiar especially to baby boomer TV fans. A smart, articulate, well-groomed actor with noticeably premature gray hair, Smithers is probably best remembered for his on-again, off-again role as arch-villain Jeremy Wendell who frequently crossed paths with J.R. Ewing on Dallas (1978) from 1981-1985. Avid Trekkies will also remember his role as Capt. Merrick in the original Star Trek (1966) series. Born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 10, 1927, Smithers received his initial break on stage, making his Broadway debut and winning a Theatre World Award for his performance as Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet" in 1951. Olivia de Havilland, who played Juliet, also made her Broadway bow in that production. The following year Smithers joined the Actors Studio and became a major exponent of Lee Strasberg's "Method" style of acting. He continued to win acclaim on the stage, earning an Obie award in 1957 for Best Actor for his portrayal of Treplev in the off-Broadway production of "The Sea Gull". He made a successful feature film debut in 1956 as a harried infantry officer in Robert Aldrich's acclaimed war drama Attack (1956), but would make only a handful of large-screen appearances after that, including Trouble Man (1972), Papillon (1973), Scorpio (1973) and Deathsport (1978). Television, of course, was a different story. Smithers has appeared or guest-starred in nearly 400 programs in his nearly five-decade-long career. Often called to play serious-minded executives and other such authority figures, he had a real penchant for playing oily villains. You could find his unscrupulous, cold-hearted white collars on any given 1960s or 1970s crime series - Mission: Impossible (1966), The F.B.I. (1965), Mannix (1967), The Mod Squad (1968), The Name of the Game (1968) and Barnaby Jones (1973), to name a few. Less seen since the early 1990s, he is also known for his acting seminars at colleges and universities. Smithers instructs alongside his second wife, noted acting teacher S. Loraine Hull. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of William Smithers’s flixes, followed by Amazon Prime Video compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

William Smithers on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1972 to 1979. See the full graphs of the number of William Smithers movies released per year from 1972 till 1979.

Top Genres

William Smithers works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Action Genre flixes. 50% of William Smithers movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that William Smithers worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that William Smithers has worked on is 6.1.

6.1 / 10

William Smithers's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Crime,Drama
Trouble Man (1972)

A neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out the way.

6.7/1099 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Action,Drama,Sci-Fi
Deathsport (1978)

Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".

4.1/1082 min

Available in 5 platform(s).