1933 - 2021
William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Smith has received more than 168,395 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William Smith is the 3,258th most popular actor (down from 3,060th in 2019), the 5,069th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,907th in 2019) and the 1,537th most popular American Actor.
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Among actors, William Smith ranks 3,258 out of 9,996. Before him are Dorothy Gish, William Hickey, Ruby Dee, Freddie Bartholomew, Caroline Goodall, and Brie Larson. After him are Marga López, Lupita Tovar, Ethel Merman, John Shrapnel, Burt Ward, and Brian Thompson.
1898 - 1968
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 3,252
1927 - 1997
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 3,253
1922 - 2014
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 3,254
1924 - 1992
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 3,255
1959 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 3,256
1989 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 3,257
1933 - 2021
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 3,258
1924 - 2005
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 3,259
1910 - 2016
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 3,260
1908 - 1984
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 3,261
1942 - 2020
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 3,262
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 3,263
1959 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 3,264
Among people born in 1933, William Smith ranks 252. Before him are Chen Jingrun, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Brad Harris, Ercole Baldini, Javier Lozano Barragán, and Jean Becker. After him are Tsuneko Okazaki, Meena Kumari, Romuald Klim, Tamás Vásáry, John Taylor, and Elly Ameling. Among people deceased in 2021, William Smith ranks 367. Before him are Lester Bird, Walter Taibo, Tormod Knutsen, Johnny Pacheco, Gustavo Peña, and Bunny Wailer. After him are Donald Kagan, Richard Marcinko, Jack Angel, Chris Barber, Nikolai Slichenko, and Momčilo Vukotić.
1933 - 1996
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 246
1933 - 2011
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 247
1933 - 2017
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 248
1933 - 2022
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 249
1933 - 2022
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 250
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 251
1933 - 2021
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 252
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 253
1933 - 1972
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 254
1933 - 2011
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 255
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 256
1933 - 1966
HPI: 49.06
Rank: 257
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 258
1938 - 2021
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 361
1931 - 2021
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 362
1932 - 2021
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 363
1935 - 2021
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 364
1942 - 2021
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 365
1947 - 2021
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 366
1933 - 2021
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 367
1932 - 2021
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 368
1940 - 2021
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 369
1930 - 2021
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 370
1930 - 2021
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 371
1934 - 2021
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 372
1950 - 2021
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 373
Among people born in United States, William Smith ranks 5,069 out of 18,182. Before him are William Hickey (1927), Ruby Dee (1922), Charlie Mariano (1923), Mike Bloomfield (1943), Brie Larson (1989), and Eric S. Raymond (1957). After him are Patti Scialfa (1953), Nate Dogg (1969), James Thurber (1894), Jim Walton (1948), Saul Alinsky (1909), and Bob Gale (1951).
1927 - 1997
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 5,063
1922 - 2014
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 5,064
1923 - 2009
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 5,065
1943 - 1981
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 5,066
1989 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 5,067
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 5,068
1933 - 2021
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 5,069
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 5,070
1969 - 2011
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 5,071
1894 - 1961
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 5,072
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 5,073
1909 - 1972
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 5,074
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 5,075
Among actors born in United States, William Smith ranks 1,537. Before him are Zooey Deschanel (1980), Jon Hamm (1971), Dorothy Gish (1898), William Hickey (1927), Ruby Dee (1922), and Brie Larson (1989). After him are Ethel Merman (1908), Burt Ward (1945), Brian Thompson (1959), Titus Welliver (1962), Luke Wilson (1971), and Amanda Peet (1972).
1980 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 1,531
1971 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 1,532
1898 - 1968
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 1,533
1927 - 1997
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 1,534
1922 - 2014
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 1,535
1989 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 1,536
1933 - 2021
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 1,537
1908 - 1984
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 1,538
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 1,539
1959 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 1,540
1962 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 1,541
1971 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 1,542
1972 - Present
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 1,543