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Date Posted: 19:27:45 08/06/14 Wed
Author: SWC
Subject: Actor's resumes

I recently watched something with the actor William Smith, (a frequent western guest star), in it and decided to look him up on the net.

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(actor)

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Wikipedia says "Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse and a Master's degree in Russian Studies from UCLA". It also outlines his incredible athletic achievements, including having 18 1/2 inch arms, (I assume they mean circumference rather than length) and "is a record holder for reverse-curling his own bodyweight". He won the Air Force weightlifting championship, had a 31-1 record as an amateur boxer, (so I guess he isn't perfect) and was a "student" of the martial arts. He also played semi-pro football in Germany, competed in motocross and downhill skiing events and won the 200 pound arm-wrestling championship of the world several times.

But this pales compared to his academic and military career. He got a Master's Degree in Russian studies at UCLA wound up teaching Russian there. He "abandon(ed) his Ph.D. studies for an MGM contract and stunt doubling for former screen Tarzan Lex Barker in a 1958 French film The Strange Awakening". He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Munich while learning languages through the military. Smith is fluent in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French and German. During the Korean War he was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over Russia. He had both CIA and NSA clearance and intended to enter a classified position with the U.S. government, but his marriage to a French actress meant the loss of security clearance."

I checked and the CIA was formed in 1947 and NSA in 1952, so they could have been involved in the Korean War. But Smith's listed date of birth is 3/24/33, meaning he would have been 20 years old when the Korean War ended 7/27/53. of course, he could have been working for the CIA and NSA in Korea after that. But it seems a remarkable career for such a young man. And how did he wind up stunt doubling Lex Barker in a 1958 French film after such a distinguished career. And it said he elft UCLA to do that. I thought that was before he started working for the government.

And it seems a strange fate for such a person to wind up playing bad guys in B movies. Oh, and he was also the alst Marlboro Man.

IMDB says he "studied at" Syracuse, (he's not listed as a football letterman by SU: how did Ben Schwartzwalder let such a specimen get away?). It says he joined the Air Force out of high school and "and flew secret ferret missions over Russia while in the NSA. "

Apparently William Smith his his real name but it doesn't appear here:
http://armwrestlersonly.blogspot.com/2013/04/champions-of-petaluma-wwc.html
And he, supposedly, was the "200 pound champion" when the classes were "right arm" and "left arm" champion.

Well, an actor does need a good imagination.

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[> Re: Actor's resumes -- Steve J, 17:34:26 08/07/14 Thu [1]

And a poet. I read his book - bought a copy in Lone Pine, CA. This link has audio of Bill reading excerpts of his own work:
http://www.williamsmith.us/poetry.shtml


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