R.I.P. WILLIAM SMITH, PLAYED FALCONETTI IN THE GROUNDBREAKING SERIES, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, WITH CROTON'S PETER STRAUSS AND MUCH MORE

POST - William Smith, ‘Rich Man, Poor Man’ and cult film star, dead at 88

William Smith, the iconic tough-guy actor in “Hawaii Five-O” and “Laredo,” died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. He was 88.........He played Texas Ranger Joe Riley in TV’s “Laredo” from 1965 to 1967, and later joined the original cast of “Hawaii Five-O” for its last season in 1980. Smith also was a part of the first miniseries broadcast on American television, “Rich Man, Poor Man.”........On the silver screen, Smith also acted in popular films. He played a general in the 1984 cult classic “Red Dawn,” speaking fluent Russian — which was only one of the six languages he spoke. READ MORE HERE.

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AND HERE'S A STRAUSS NOLTE PIECE ON RICH MAN, POOR MAN HERE.