Paul L. Smith
Paul L. Smith (born February 5, 1939) was 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12 |
| Birthday | 1939-02-05 |
| Place of Birth | Everett, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Paul Smith, Bob Spencer, Paul Lawrence Smith, Adam Eden, פול סמית, |
1985
Crimewave
5.5/132
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,...
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Crimewave
1980
Popeye
5.448/586
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 wi...
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Popeye
1994
Maverick
6.871/1536
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-al...
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Maverick
1975
Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket
6/6
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 arc...
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Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket
1985
Red Sonja
5.328/795
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 pow...
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Red Sonja
1982
Pieces
5.9/233
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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Pieces
1988
Death Chase
4/4
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 ki...
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Death Chase
1989
Sonny Boy
5.1/20
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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Sonny Boy
1987
Gor
3.7/37
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...
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Gor
1977
Return of the Tiger
5.5/8
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 nefariou...
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Return of the Tiger
1979
Disaster on the Coastliner
5.3/14
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 Sha...
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Disaster on the Coastliner
1989
Ten Little Indians
4.868/38
An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.
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Ten Little Indians
1973
They Call Me Shmil
1/1
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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They Call Me Shmil
1974
Carambola!
3/4
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...
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Carambola!
1984
Operation Shtreimel
6/1
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 th...
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Operation Shtreimel
1972
Nahtche and the General
5/1
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...
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Nahtche and the General
1975
Convoy Buddies
5.3/6
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,...
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Convoy Buddies
1976
The Diamond Peddlers
6/6
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 V...
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The Diamond Peddlers
1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team
4.7/3
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, pl...
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D.R.E.A.M. Team
1975
We Are No Angels
6/1
Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
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We Are No Angels
1979
The In-Laws
6.558/112
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...
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The In-Laws
1990
Caged Fury
4/32
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 priso...
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Caged Fury
1981
The Salamander
5.6/21
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a sala...
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The Salamander
1985
The Protector
6/171
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 fa...
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The Protector
1992
Desert Kickboxer
3.7/6
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...
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Desert Kickboxer
1986
Haunted Honeymoon
5.364/152
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech...
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Haunted Honeymoon
1973
Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
6/6
Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this retelling of the story of Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection.
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Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
1990
Crossing the Line
5.3/11
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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Crossing the Line
1989
The Hired Gun
0/0
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret documents from WW2, hidden at an American military ba...
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The Hired Gun
1985
Sno-Line
0/0
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...
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Sno-Line
1988
Outlaw Force
4.8/4
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 th...
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Outlaw Force
1991
Eye of the Widow
3.3/7
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. Th...
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Eye of the Widow
1984
Jungle Warriors
3.9/19
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...
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Jungle Warriors
1984
Dune
6.199/2906
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 spi...
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Dune
1979
Going in Style
6.9/50
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 w...
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Going in Style
1978
Midnight Express
7.513/1643
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 y...
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Midnight Express
1976
21 Hours at Munich
6.2/19
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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21 Hours at Munich
1975
Conspiracy of Terror
6/2
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who h...
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Conspiracy of Terror
1970
Madron
5.1/11
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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Madron
1971
Fishke Bemilu'im
6/1
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Fishke Bemilu'im
1989
You're Famous
6/1
A woman goes streaking in a race track, a senior citizens' seminar features a pre-sex demonstration, public toilets' walls fall apart, and other candi...
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You're Famous
1989
Crazy Camera
7/1
A candid camera comedy where hidden camera films unsuspecting street passers-by reacting to comic situations the filmmakers set up.
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Crazy Camera
1982
When I Am King
0/0
Two children move to a dream world of magicians, witches and an evil Gypsy.
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When I Am King
2014
Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo auf Ibiza
0/0
Featurette about the 1980 film "Gefangene Frauen" starring Eric Falk and Erwin C. Dietrich.
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Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo auf Ibiza
1974
Alcohol: The Choice
0/0
A teenager is faced with pressure from peers to drink and his decision about the use of alcohol. The young man is assisted by a youth minister in maki...
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