Emerging from Richmond, Virginia, William Smithers entered the performing arts after a Broadway debut as Tybalt in a 1951 production of Romeo and Juliet, earning a Theater World Award, joining The Actors Studio as a life member in 1952, and receiving an Obie Award in 1957 for his turn as Treplev in Chekhov’s The Seagull. His television career spanned nearly four hundred productions, with notable r…
