{"id":29294,"date":"2026-06-18T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29294"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:13:50","slug":"veteran-film-and-tv-actor-best-known-for-dallas-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29294","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Film and TV Actor, Best Known for Dallas, Dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"15\" data-end=\"207\">Veteran actor <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">William Smithers<\/span><\/span>, best known for playing ruthless oil tycoon Jeremy Wendell on the TV drama <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Dallas<\/span><\/span>, has died at the age of 98.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"752\">Born in Virginia in 1927, Smithers served in the U.S. military before building a television and film career that lasted more than six decades. He appeared in shows such as <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Twilight Zone<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Perry Mason<\/span><\/span>, and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Gunsmoke<\/span><\/span>. He also won a landmark legal case against MGM and later became known for portraying Jeremy Wendell, one of J.R. Ewing\u2019s biggest rivals on Dallas. Smithers is survived by a legacy of memorable performances and dedication to the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZfF-SQdwY7E?si=0b9k7fPaFjKIE4gS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor William Smithers, best known for playing ruthless oil tycoon Jeremy Wendell on the TV drama Dallas, has died at the age of 98. Born in Virginia in 1927, Smithers served in the U.S. military before building a television and film career that lasted more than six decades. He appeared in shows such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29294\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Veteran Film and TV Actor, Best Known for Dallas, Dies at 98&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29296,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions\/29296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}