![]() Saylor, Bruce Watson and Laura Hippe, and directed by Gus Trikonis). He starred in 1972's Grave of the Vampire as James Eastman (co-starring with Michael Pataki and Lyn Peters), and 1973's Invasion of the Bee Girls (co-starring Victoria Vetri, Anitra Ford and Katie Saylor, written by Nicholas Meyer and directed by Denis Sanders), and 1975's The Swinging Barmaids (starring Ms. ![]() and Company with Ann-Margret, Joe Namath, Jennifer Billingsley and genre favorite Sid Haig, the latter of which was directed by Seymour Robbie and written by Ann-Margret's husband, actor Roger Smith. Also that year, Smith was also featured in two biker flicks Nam's Angels (originally released under the title "The Losers") co-starring Bernie Hamilton and C.C. Smith appeared as heavy Terry Bartell in Darker than Amber in 1970. On the big screen, Smith became the star of several cult movies from the early seventies. Coltrane to frame the Duke Boys into jail. He also appeared in the 1979 miniseries The Rebels as John Waverly, and in an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard as Jason Steele, a bounty hunter hired by Sheriff Rosco P. Other 1970s TV appearances included the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Energy Eater", as an Indian medicine man who advises Kolchak, and an early Six Million Dollar Man episode "Survival of the Fittest" as Commander Maxwell. In the 1976 television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, he portrayed Anthony Falconetti, nemesis of the Jordache family, and reprised the role in the sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. Smith also made guest appearances opposite James Garner in the 1974 two-hour pilot for The Rockford Files (titled "Backlash of the Hunter" and also featuring Lindsay Wagner and Bill Mumy), and George Peppard in The A-Team (in two appearances as different characters, in the first season's "Pros and Cons" and the fourth season's "The A-Team Is Coming, The A-Team Is Coming"). Smith starred in one episode each of the Adam West Batman TV series (in the episode "Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires" as Adonis, one of the minions of the title guest villainess portrayed by Zsa Zsa Gabor), I Dream of Jeannie (in the episode "Operation: First Couple on the Moon" as Turk Parker), Kung Fu, and as The Treybor, a ruthless warlord, in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Buck's Duel to the Death". He had previously appeared with Jack Lord in Lord's prior series Stoney Burke. Smith joined the cast of the final season of Hawaii Five-O (as Detective James "Kimo" Carew, a new officer in the Five-O unit). Smith has been described as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time". On Gunsmoke, Smith appeared in a 1972 episode, "Hostage!" his character beats and rapes Amanda Blake's character Miss Kitty Russell and shoots her twice in the back. In that story line, Brown takes the job of sheriff to tame a lawless town, begins to court a young woman (again played by Emily Banks), but soon returns to his deadly outlaw ways in search of bigger thrills. He played the outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown in the 1969 episode "The Restless Man". In the story line, Parker contracts the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche warriors, and is rescued by his future Mexican wife, Yolanda (Emily Banks). Smith was cast as John Richard Parker, brother of Cynthia Ann Parker, both taken hostage in Texas by the Comanche, in the 1969 episode "The Understanding" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days, which was hosted by Robert Taylor. 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 Texas Ranger on the NBC western series Laredo (1965–1967). He was a regular on the 1961 ABC television series The Asphalt Jungle, portraying police Sergeant Danny Keller. government, but while he was working on his doctorate studies he landed an acting contract with MGM. He had both CIA and NSA clearance and intended to enter a classified position with the U.S. Smith held a 31-1 record as an amateur boxer.ĭuring the Korean War he was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR. His trademark arms measured as much as 19½ inches. A lifelong bodybuilder, Smith is 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. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Smith began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942 he entered films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St.
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