Paul L. Smith

Paul L. Smith

Born: February 5, 1939
Died: April 25, 2012
in Everett, Massachusetts, USA
Paul L. Smith (born February 5, 1939) is an American character actor. Burly, bearded, and imposing, he has appeared in films and occasionally on TV since the 1970s, generally playing "heavies" and bad guys. His most notable roles include Hamidou, the vicious prison warden in Midnight Express (1978), Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980) and the Beast Rabban in David Lynch's Dune (1984). He is sometimes credited as Paul Smith or Paul Lawrence Smith

Movies for Paul L. Smith...

Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo auf Ibiza
Title: Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo auf Ibiza
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Featurette about the 1980 film "Gefangene Frauen" starring Eric Falk and Erwin C. Dietrich.
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D.R.E.A.M. Team
Title: D.R.E.A.M. Team
Character: Vladimir Corzon (as Paul Smith)
Released: September 25, 1999
Type: Movie
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to undercover as fashion models to infiltrate the terrorist organization to find the bomb before it can be used.
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Maverick
Title: Maverick
Character: The Archduke
Released: May 20, 1994
Type: Movie
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
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Desert Kickboxer
Title: Desert Kickboxer
Character: Santos
Released: November 14, 1992
Type: Movie
A kickboxing cop abandons the violent life after he accidentally kills his opponent during a match. After quitting, he heads for the Arizona desert to live alone and occasionally work tracking drug runners for the area sheriff. One particularly wily Mexican drug lord, Santos, has been a real thorn in tracker Joe Highhawk's side, so when he encounters the beautiful Claudia and her simpleton brother Anthony running for their lives because she, an accountant, embezzled $20 million from Santos, he decides to help them. This actioner follows what happens next. Along the way, they encounter all sorts of danger, and double cross until the exciting final standoff between the kickboxer and the villain.
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Eye of the Widow
Title: Eye of the Widow
Character: Elko
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: Movie
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. The CIA then hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out. This big budget film with many 'A' stars was barely released. In fact, despite being a U.S. production filmed in Europe, it was never widely screened theatrically in America nor did it receive a video release.
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Crossing the Line
Title: Crossing the Line
Character: Joe Kapinski
Released: August 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.
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Caged Fury
Title: Caged Fury
Character: Head Guard
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Kat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she and her new friend find themselves in a women's prison run by sadistic guards and a lesbian warden.
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Ten Little Indians
Title: Ten Little Indians
Character: Elmo Rodgers
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.
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Sonny Boy
Title: Sonny Boy
Character: Slue
Released: March 22, 1989
Type: Movie
A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.
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The Hired Gun
Title: The Hired Gun
Character: Wounded Man
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret documents from WW2, hidden at an American military base.
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Crazy Camera
Title: Crazy Camera
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A candid camera comedy where hidden camera films unsuspecting street passers-by reacting to comic situations the filmmakers set up.
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You're Famous
Title: You're Famous
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A woman goes streaking in a race track, a senior citizens' seminar features a pre-sex demonstration, public toilets' walls fall apart, and other candid camera pranks take place in South Africa.
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Death Chase
Title: Death Chase
Character: Steele
Released: March 12, 1988
Type: Movie
After a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to find and kill them. He then discovers that the men he killed were part of a multi-millionaire's bizarre "death game", where someone is hunted through the streets of Los Angeles by teams of killers who get a big-money prize for killing their quarry--and he realizes that now he is "it".
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Outlaw Force
Title: Outlaw Force
Character: Inspector Wainright
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Some punks go into a small town and start hassling the gas station owner; Billy Ray Dalton a friend of the owner pulls a shot gun on them and tells them to go away. Later they go back and force the owner to tell them where Dalton lives. Now, Dalton a part time musician's out on a gig, when they go to his house and kill his pregnant wife, and take his daughter. Dalton follows them to try and get his daughter back.
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Gor
Title: Gor
Character: Serbus
Released: May 8, 1987
Type: Movie
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.
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Haunted Honeymoon
Title: Haunted Honeymoon
Character: Dr. Paul Abbot
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.
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Sno-Line
Title: Sno-Line
Character: Duval
Released: September 13, 1985
Type: Movie
A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob tries to move in on his operation, he goes down there to try to stop them.
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The Protector
Title: The Protector
Character: Mr. Booar (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.
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Crimewave
Title: Crimewave
Character: Faron Crush
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
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Red Sonja
Title: Red Sonja
Character: Falkon
Released: April 9, 1985
Type: Movie
The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: The Beast Rabban
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
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Operation Shtreimel
Title: Operation Shtreimel
Released: June 6, 1984
Type: Movie
This wacky comedy takes place in the weeks leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. With the Allies uncertain as to what the Germans have in store for them after the invasion, it's up to one Jewish paratrooper to sneak into Germany's top-secret army base and steal the plans!
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Jungle Warriors
Title: Jungle Warriors
Character: Cesar Santiago
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
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Pieces
Title: Pieces
Character: Willard
Released: August 23, 1982
Type: Movie
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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When I Am King
Title: When I Am King
Character: Sir Blackstone Hardtack
Released: July 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Two children move to a dream world of magicians, witches and an evil Gypsy.
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The Salamander
Title: The Salamander
Character: The Surgeon
Released: April 25, 1981
Type: Movie
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
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Title: Masada
Character: Gideon
Released: April 5, 1981
Type: TV
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
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Popeye
Title: Popeye
Character: Bluto
Released: December 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
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Going in Style
Title: Going in Style
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: December 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
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Disaster on the Coastliner
Title: Disaster on the Coastliner
Character: Jim Waterman / Victor Prescott
Released: October 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
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The In-Laws
Title: The In-Laws
Character: Mo
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
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Midnight Express
Title: Midnight Express
Character: Hamidou
Released: August 31, 1978
Type: Movie
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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Title: CHiPs
Character: Announcer
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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Return of the Tiger
Title: Return of the Tiger
Character: Paul the Westerner
Released: June 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Chang Hung, an agent who works for a rival organization, and his female partner devise an elaborate plan to take out a heroin ring led by the nefarious kingpin, Paul the Westerner.
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21 Hours at Munich
Title: 21 Hours at Munich
Character: Guttfruend
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
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The Diamond Peddlers
Title: The Diamond Peddlers
Character: Simone / Toby
Released: January 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Bumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the authorities in Africa. Butch and Toby deliver a statue of the Virgin Mary from Africa to Amsterdam. Unbenownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling diamonds. A group of equally inept mobsters give chase.
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Conspiracy of Terror
Title: Conspiracy of Terror
Character: Pound Supervisor
Released: December 29, 1975
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
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Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Simon Rohan
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: TV
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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We Are No Angels
Title: We Are No Angels
Character: Raphael McDonald
Released: September 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
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Convoy Buddies
Title: Convoy Buddies
Character: Butch
Released: July 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Leon Stipanich (as Paul Lawrence Smith)
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket
Title: Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket
Character: Len
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Len and Cody are two friends who can not spend more than two minutes without arguing. These crazy gunmen snatched a Confederate colonel charged an archaic machine gun sidecar soon becomes a coveted prize for all offenders in west Texas.
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Carambola!
Title: Carambola!
Character: Len
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Coby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000 dollars to investigate the trafficking of arms across the Mexican border, but the pair come across a new revolutionary revolver.
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Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
Title: Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
Character: Peter
Released: March 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this retelling of the story of Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection.
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They Call Me Shmil
Title: They Call Me Shmil
Character: Shmiel
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Professional big-dude Paul Smith in an Israeli-produced action-comedy that looks to take inspiration from the Hill/Spencer comedies.
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Nahtche and the General
Title: Nahtche and the General
Released: June 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Comedy which revolves around the exploits of Nahtche and his constant success in disentangling himself from the grip of the persons who are after him and whom he is leading by the nose.
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Title: Emergency!
Released: January 22, 1972
Type: TV
The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
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Fishke Bemilu'im
Title: Fishke Bemilu'im
Character: שמיל
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Madron
Title: Madron
Character: Gabe Price (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Andy Kamoku
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".