The veteran character actor, who played the ruthless oilman Jeremy Wendell on the CBS primetime soap, gave nemesis J.R. Ewing all he could handle.
William Smithers, the veteran character actor who as the ruthless oilman Jeremy Wendell gave nemesis J.R. Ewing all he could handle on the CBS primetime soap Smithers, who specialized in playing heavies during his career, also guest-starred as Capt.
R.M. Merik, a onetime Federation officer now presiding over Roman gladiators, on the original.
“We make no pretense of rehabilitation here. We’re not priests, we’re processors. A meat-packer processes live animals into edible ones. We process dangerous men into harmless ones.
This we accomplish by breaking you. Breaking you physically, spiritually and here . Strange things happen to the head here. Put all hope out of your mind and masturbate as little as possible.
It drains the strength. ”.
“Larry was a strong actor. I feel like I had to be at the top of my game when I was working with him. It was very stimulating. ”, he sued MGM.
In the highly publicized case, he claimed the studio had violated his contract, which said that, with three named exceptions, no other castmember could receive more money or better billing than he did. He indicated an MGM exec threatened to blacklist him in Hollywood should he follow through on the suit, but the actor pressed on.
A jury and then the California Supreme Court found in his favor — “we won it big,” he said — andMarion Wilkinson Smithers Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 10, 1927. His father was an electrician who moved the family in 1936 to Elizabeth, New Jersey.
At Alexander Hamilton Junior High School, he appeared in a play with futureAfter 14 months in the U.S. Navy, Smithers attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and then Catholic University in Washington before moving to New York in 1950 to pursue an acting career. To pay the bills, he worked as an usher at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway, where Henry Fonda was starring inFor his Broadway bow, Smithers dyed his hair red and received a Theater World award for his turn as Tybalt opposite de Havilland in, then was accepted into The Actors Studio.
with Bruce Dern and received an Obie Award in 1957 for playing Treplev in an off-Broadway production of Chekhov’sIn 1960, Smithers spent a summer with the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, and had what he called ” an intense — and illicit love affair” with actress Barbara Barrie.
Three years later, he worked alongside Charles Boyer in London and on Broadway inand left the series in a dispute over money.
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