WILLIAM SMITH'S
DRIBS, DABS & DREGS
GEMS, CAMEOS & Get Bill's Name on the Video Box
William Smith as riverboat gambler in Maverick
Maverick Cameo

The incomprehensible
Rollerblade 7
[We'll have full pages on each movie eventually]

THE GEMS

 INSTANT KARMA  [1990] Bill is partnered with David Cassidy as a rock & roll detective in this TV show within a movie about a TV writer.
 MEAN SEASON  [1985] A very nice one-scene part in this Kurt Russell crime thriller
 THE OUTSIDERS  [1983] Just after Bill finished shooting a major role in Rumble Fish, Coppola called him to fill in as a shopkeeper in this one little scene to replace someone who just wasn't working out. 
 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER [1995]  A scene has to be pretty good when the crew applauds.

CAMEOS, SMALL PARTS & WALK-ONS

MAVERICK   [1994] Bill's was one of many delightful cameos in the riverboat gambling scene.
AMERICAN ME  [1992]  A one-scene killing spree
UNCLE SAM  [1996] Bill stays long enough to be killed in the first scene then does a reading of his own poem over the end credits.
COLUMBO  "Greenhouse Jungle"  [10-15-72] One of Bill's pretty boy, rich woman's sex toy roles.
MATING GAME  [1959]  Bill went to high school with Debbie Reynolds long before he made this 3-scene appearance in her movie.

THE DREGS

Some are clearly inserts just to get Bill's name on the straight-to-video box of a movie with little else going for it.  Others are --- well an actor has to eat and 1991 must have been a really bad year.
THE ROLLER BLADE 7  [1993, 1992, 1991]  A trilogy or the same incomprehensible movie recut 3 times?
TERROR IN BEVERLY HILLS [1991] Does anyone know why Bill's voice was dubbed in this???  He doesn't.  We don't.  Maybe a plot change they didn't want to reshoot around?
CYBERNATOR  [1991] Bill met his girlfriend on this set so it wasn't all for naught.
KISS & BE KILLED  [1991]  Bill's scenes as a detective seem inserted here as he interacts with only one of the stars.  Sort of amusing.
LAST OF THE WARRIORS  [1991]  Bill's part can only be called strange
MERCHANT OF EVIL  [1991]
EMPEROR OF THE BRONX  [1988]

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