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PHOG 07-10-2021 07:27 AM
Right turn Clyde. LMAO

Frazod 07-10-2021 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 15736269)
whoa.....mind blown ...That is good info
Check his bio page on IMDb. Dude had an amazing life.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/..._=nm_ov_bio_sm

Air Force veteran during the Korean War. Was a champion boxer and weightlifter. Played semi-pro football, fought wildfires in California.

Flying High D 07-10-2021 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 15736294)
Check his bio page on IMDb. Dude had an amazing life.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/..._=nm_ov_bio_sm

Air Force veteran during the Korean War. Was a champion boxer and weightlifter. Played semi-pro football, fought wildfires in California.
Homeless people are starting the fires, saw it on the news.

Mosbonian 07-10-2021 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 15736054)
RIP William Smith.

If you’ve ever watched any tv show or movie from the 60s to 80s, you remember this guy. He was nearly always cast as some sort of baddie. But he was good at it.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">William Smith, Action Actor and Star of ‘Laredo’ and ‘Rich Man, Poor Man,’ Dies at 88 <a href="https://t.co/v2yLqSHCUK">https://t.co/v2yLqSHCUK</a></p>&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1413535140702265345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I always loved the guy he played in the series Laredo too...

He was great as the bad guy in Rich Man, Poor Man....

scho63 07-10-2021 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Mosbonian (Post 15736331)

He was great as the bad guy in Rich Man, Poor Man....
One of the most underrated mini-series in TV history.

I remember watching it as a teenager and it was incredible!

Deberg_1990 07-10-2021 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 15736294)
Check his bio page on IMDb. Dude had an amazing life.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810342/..._=nm_ov_bio_sm

Air Force veteran during the Korean War. Was a champion boxer and weightlifter. Played semi-pro football, fought wildfires in California.
Yea. No kidding. His Bio is pretty amazing. He was still making movies as of late.

Mennonite 07-10-2021 09:50 AM
Smith also had memorable (to me anyway) roles in Gunsmoke and in the very first episode of The Rockford Files. He was also in a lot of trashy B movies that I have a soft spot for.


IMDb says his first role was in The Ghost of Frankenstein back in 1942. I had no idea he started acting as a kid.

RIP.

Mosbonian 07-10-2021 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 15736359)
One of the most underrated mini-series in TV history.

I remember watching it as a teenager and it was incredible!
I was 20 at the time....trying to impress the girl I was dating. I wanted nothing to do with watching a mini-series, but she wanted to watch it, so I did. (that paid off for me in so many ways)

I ended up loving it....I actually related to the Nick Nolte character so much because I had an older brother whose life, to some extent, mirrored the Peter Strauss character.

The essence of the story being....who really was the Rich Man and who was the Poor Man.

I actually read the follow up Beggarman, Thief but wasn't as enamored as I was of Rich Man, Poor Man.

Mennonite 07-10-2021 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Mosbonian (Post 15736404)
I wanted nothing to do with watching a mini-series

A lot of those made for tv movie and mini series from the 70s and 80s really kicked ass. Lonesome Dove, Shogun, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Murder By Natural Causes and so many more.

Mosbonian 07-10-2021 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Mennonite (Post 15736419)
A lot of those made for tv movie and mini series from the 70s and 80s really kicked ass. Lonesome Dove, Shogun, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Murder By Natural Causes and so many more.
I know.....in those days you could get your "man card" taken away for letting people know you watched mini-series.

I actually REALLY liked Lonesome Dove and Shogun....the others were good watching but not on the par with the RMPM, LD or Shogun.

Plus....it got me in good graces with the then-girlfriend.

Frazod 07-10-2021 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Mennonite (Post 15736419)
A lot of those made for tv movie and mini series from the 70s and 80s really kicked ass. Lonesome Dove, Shogun, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Murder By Natural Causes and so many more.
You're forgetting the best one - North and South.

Baby Lee 07-10-2021 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 15736689)
You're forgetting the best one - North and South.
Patrick Swayze had, what, Outsiders and Red Dawn under his belt at that time.

North and South and Lonesome Dove led me to read everything John Jakes and Larry McMurtry. . . I mean everything. Back in my 'read everything I could get my hands on' phase. Bradbury, Asimov, L'Engle, Tolkien, Herbert, CS Lewis, and eventually Bachman/King [and of course starting with all the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Encyclopedia Brown, etc].

Mosbonian 07-10-2021 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 15736723)
Patrick Swayze had, what, Outsiders and Red Dawn under his belt at that time.

North and South and Lonesome Dove led me to read everything John Jakes and Larry McMurtry. . . I mean everything. Back in my 'read everything I could get my hands on' phase. Bradbury, Asimov, L'Engle, Tolkien, Herbert, CS Lewis, and eventually Bachman/King [and of course starting with all the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Encyclopedia Brown, etc].
Encyclopedia Brown....man does that bring out some memories.

You forgot The 3 Investigators (Alfred Hitchcock) and the baseball series, Bronc Burnett.

Baby Lee 07-10-2021 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Mosbonian (Post 15736725)
Encyclopedia Brown....man does that bring out some memories.

You forgot The 3 Investigators (Alfred Hitchcock) and the baseball series, Bronc Burnett.
I was recently listening to a podcast with some comedians [forgot which one, probably Threedom with Aukerman/Tompkins/Lapkus] and one of them was trying to remember a 'kid detective' series with a clubhouse in a junkyard. I was yelling '3 Investigators' at my PC.

Deberg_1990 07-10-2021 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 15736723)
Patrick Swayze had, what, Outsiders and Red Dawn under his belt at that time.

North and South and Lonesome Dove led me to read everything John Jakes and Larry McMurtry. . . I mean everything. Back in my 'read everything I could get my hands on' phase. Bradbury, Asimov, L'Engle, Tolkien, Herbert, CS Lewis, and eventually Bachman/King [and of course starting with all the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Encyclopedia Brown, etc].
William Smith had a small part in The Outsiders movie as well. I think he played the store clerk that Dally tries to rob at the end.


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