Paul L. Smith
Birthday: 1939-02-05
Place of Birth: Everett, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: Paul L. Smith (February 5, 1939 – April 25, 2012) 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.
Movies
Popeye
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm...
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Crimewave
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go...
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Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket
Len and Cody are two friends who can not spend more than two minutes without arguing. These crazy gu...
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Maverick
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k...
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Red Sonja
The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills...
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Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo auf Ibiza
Featurette about the 1980 film "Gefangene Frauen" starring Eric Falk and Erwin C. Dietrich....
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Pieces
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of univers...
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Death Chase
After a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to find a...
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Sonny Boy
A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his t...
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Gor
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an...
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Return of the Tiger
Chang Hung, an agent who works for a rival organization, and his female partner devise an elaborate ...
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Disaster on the Coastliner
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger tra...
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Ten Little Indians
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing the...
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They Call Me Shmil
Professional big-dude Paul Smith in an Israeli-produced action-comedy that looks to take inspiration...
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Carambola!
Coby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000 dollars ...
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Operation Shtreimel
This wacky comedy takes place in the weeks leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy during Worl...
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Nahtche and the General
Comedy which revolves around the exploits of Nahtche and his constant success in disentangling himse...
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Convoy Buddies
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from ...
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The Diamond Peddlers
Bumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the authorities i...
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D.R.E.A.M. Team
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of t...
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Sno-Line
A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob trie...
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The In-Laws
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's...
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Outlaw Force
Some punks go into a small town and start hassling the gas station owner; Billy Ray Dalton a friend ...
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Caged Fury
Kat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she and...
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The Salamander
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left ...
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The Protector
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new p...
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Desert Kickboxer
A kickboxing cop abandons the violent life after he accidentally kills his opponent during a match. ...
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When I Am King
Two children move to a dream world of magicians, witches and an evil Gypsy....
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Alcohol: The Choice
A teenager is faced with pressure from peers to drink and his decision about the use of alcohol. The...
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The Three Hostages
Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover...
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Haunted Honeymoon
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced ...
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Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this retelling of the story of Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrecti...
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Crossing the Line
A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best frien...
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The Hired Gun
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret doc...
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Eye of the Widow
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but on...
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Jungle Warriors
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. T...
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Dune
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice exte...
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Going in Style
Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glo...
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Midnight Express
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
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21 Hours at Munich
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Muni...
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Conspiracy of Terror
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husb...
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Madron
A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old g...
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You're Famous
A woman goes streaking in a race track, a senior citizens' seminar features a pre-sex demonstration,...
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Crazy Camera
A candid camera comedy where hidden camera films unsuspecting street passers-by reacting to comic si...
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Terminal Entry
The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer...
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