Sonny Landham

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-02-11 (76 years old)

Deathday

2017-08-17

Place of Birth

Canton, Georgia, USA

Sonny Landham

Biography

William Marion "Sonny" Landham (February 11, 1941 – August 17, 2017), or Sonny Landham, was an American film actor, stunt man and politician. He portrayed tracker Billy Sole in Predator. At the beginning of his acting career, Landham was an actor in pornographic films. He then became a mainstream movie actor and appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including The Warriors (as a subway policeman whose leg gets broken by a baseball bat-wielding Michael Beck), Predator, 48 Hrs., Lock Up and Action Jackson. In 2003, Landham ran in the Republican Party primary election for the post of Governor of Kentucky, hoping to repeat the success of his ...

Acting

1987

Predator

as Billy Sole

1982

48 Hrs.

as Billy Bear

1994

Night Realm

as Verrick

1993

1974

The Love Bus

as Amos Johnson

1981

1996

2090

as Indian

1996

Billy Lone Bear

as Billy Lone Bear

1989

Lock Up

as Chink Weber

1986

Firewalker

as El Coyote

1985

1980

Gloria

as Riverside Drive Man #8

1976

2007

Disintegration

as Boone Cagle

1974

1979

The Warriors

as Police

1977

The Trouble with Young Stuff

as Lane the Milkman

1984

Fleshburn

as Calvin Duggai

1981

Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle

as (archive footage)

1974

Special Order

as Teamster #1

1986

Northstar

as Becker

1978

Misbehavin'

as Clyde

1988

Action Jackson

as Mr. Quick

1992

1995

Blue Vanities 257

as (archive footage)

1994

Taxi Dancers

as Diamond Jim

1974

1976

Slippery When Wet

as Dougie Knowles

1975

The Defiance of Good

as Dr. Gabriel's Patient

1995

Carnival of Wolves

as One-Eyed Jack

1995

Twisted Fate

as Brick

1995

1982

Poltergeist

as Pool Worker

2009

Mental Scars

as Chief Bear

1978

The Ganja Express

as First Yellow Toga Guy (uncredited)

1979

The Warriors

as Policeman in Subway Station

1975

The Bite

as Tex

1974

Cheese

as Tex

1976

Sylvia

as Junkie #1

1975

Big Abner

as Big Abner

1974

Happy Days

as French Cook

1975

The Passions of Carol

as Curt Reynolds

1986

Fortune Dane

as Killer

1969

The Lost Man

as (uncredited)

Production

1996

Billy Lone Bear

as Director

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