# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-l-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:50.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-l-smith"
name: "Paul L. Smith"
slug: "paul-l-smith"
description: "Paul Lawrence Smith was an American-Israeli actor. Burly, bearded and imposing, he appeared in feature films and occasionally on television since the 1960s, generally playing \"heavies\" and bad guys. His most notable roles include Hamidou, the vicious prison guard in Midnight Express (1978), Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980), Gideon in the ABC miniseries Masada (1981), Glossu \"Beast\" Rabban in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Falkon in Red Sonja (1985). He was most frequently credited as Paul Smith or Paul L. Smith, but was also billed as P. L. Smith and Paul Lawrence Smith."
tagline: "American actor (1936–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_L._Smith_(1936-2012).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
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birthDate: "1936-06-24"
deathDate: "2012-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump