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.

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Movie pagePopeye
as BlutoPopeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a...
Movie pageRed Sonja
as FalkonThe tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and...
Movie pageMidnight Express
as HamidouBilly Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to...
Movie pageBret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional...
Movie pageThe Protector
as Mr. Booar (uncredited)Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his...
Movie pageThe In-Laws
as MoIn preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the...
Movie pagePieces
as WillardA frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of...
Movie pageCrimewave
as Faron CrushFed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When...
Movie pageGor
as SerbusAmerican professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must...
Movie pageHaunted Honeymoon
as Dr. Paul AbbotRadio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they...
Movie pageJungle Warriors
as Cesar SantiagoA group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo...
Movie pageCaged Fury
as Head GuardKat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she...
Movie page21 Hours at Munich
as GuttfruendA dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in...
Movie pageGoing in Style
as Radio AnnouncerThree senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with...
Movie pageTen Little Indians
as Elmo RodgersTen people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing...
Movie pageThe Salamander
as The SurgeonAn Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions....
Movie pageSonny Boy
as SlueA small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate...
Movie pageReturn of the Tiger
as Paul the WesternerChang Hung, an agent who works for a rival organization, and his female partner devise an...
Movie pageDesert Kickboxer
as SantosA kickboxing cop abandons the violent life after he accidentally kills his opponent during a...
Movie pageCarambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket
as LenLen and Cody are two friends who can not spend more than two minutes without arguing. These...
Movie pageDisaster on the Coastliner
as Jim Waterman / Victor PrescottA deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger...
Movie pageGospel Road: A Story of Jesus
as PeterJohnny Cash appears in and narrates this retelling of the story of Jesus' Life, Death and...
Movie pageD.R.E.A.M. Team
as Vladimir Corzon (as Paul Smith)J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team...
Movie pageConspiracy of Terror
as Pound SupervisorA husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the...
Movie pageThe Diamond Peddlers
as Simone / TobyBumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the...
Movie pageMadron
as Gabe Price (uncredited)A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous...
Movie pageConvoy Buddies
as ButchToby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide...
Movie pageCrossing the Line
as Joe KapinskiA rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best...
Movie pageCarambola!
as LenCoby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000...
Movie pageEye of the Widow
as ElkoA new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party,...
Movie pageDeath Chase
as SteeleAfter a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to...
Movie pageAlcohol: The Choice
as uncreditedA teenager is faced with pressure from peers to drink and his decision about the use of alcohol....
Movie pageThey Call Me Shmil
as ShmielProfessional big-dude Paul Smith in an Israeli-produced action-comedy that looks to take...
Movie pageOutlaw Force
as Inspector WainrightSome punks go into a small town and start hassling the gas station owner; Billy Ray Dalton a...
Movie pageWe Are No Angels
as Raphael McDonaldTwo wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
Movie pageSno-Line
as DuvalA New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob...
Movie pageWhen I Am King
as Sir Blackstone HardtackTwo children move to a dream world of magicians, witches and an evil Gypsy.
Movie pageOperation Shtreimel
as uncreditedThis wacky comedy takes place in the weeks leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy during...
Movie pageYou're Famous
as uncreditedA woman goes streaking in a race track, a senior citizens' seminar features a pre-sex...
Movie pageCrazy Camera
as uncreditedA candid camera comedy where hidden camera films unsuspecting street passers-by reacting to...
Movie pageThe Hired Gun
as Wounded ManA hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret...
Movie pageLove, American Style
as uncreditedAn anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in...
TV Show pageBarney Miller
as Leon Stipanich (as Paul Lawrence Smith)Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...
TV Show pageHawaii Five-O
as Andy KamokuHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
TV Show pageEmergency!
as uncreditedThe crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...
TV Show pageCHiPs
as AnnouncerLighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...
TV Show pageWonder Woman
as Simon RohanWith the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of...
TV Show pageMasada
as GideonA Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more...
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