{"id":34154,"date":"2026-09-10T23:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34154"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:28:44","slug":"beloved-film-and-tv-actor-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34154","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Film and TV Actor Dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\ud83d\udc94 <strong>Veteran Actor William Smithers Dies at 98<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Hollywood is mourning the loss of veteran actor William Smithers, best known for playing ruthless oil tycoon <strong>Jeremy Wendell on <\/strong><em><strong>Dallas<\/strong><\/em>. He was 98.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Smithers enjoyed a career spanning more than six decades, appearing in <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>, <em>Perry Mason<\/em>, <em>Gunsmoke<\/em>, <em>The Waltons<\/em>, <em>L.A. Law<\/em>, <em>Papillon<\/em> and many other major productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">His role on <em>Dallas<\/em> brought him into memorable battles with J.R. Ewing, and his career also included a landmark legal victory against MGM over a contract dispute.<\/p>\n<p>A respected character actor and longtime Hollywood professional, Smithers leaves behind an unforgettable legacy. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/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\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc94 Veteran Actor William Smithers Dies at 98 Hollywood is mourning the loss of veteran actor William Smithers, best known for playing ruthless oil tycoon Jeremy Wendell on Dallas. He was 98. Smithers enjoyed a career spanning more than six decades, appearing in The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Waltons, L.A. Law, Papillon and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34154\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Beloved Film and TV Actor Dies at 98&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34154","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\/34154","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=34154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34156,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34154\/revisions\/34156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}