Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about KURTWOOD SMITH!
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Kurtwood Larson Smith (born July 3, 1943) is an American television and film actor . he is known for playing Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987) and Red Forman in That ‘ she thought “Kurt Smith” was too short a name, so she added “wood” “she just tacked it on to the end,” he said . he is likely the only Kurtwood Smith portrayed Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop and the father role as Red Forman on the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show . he played Senator Blaine Mayer in the seventh season of the he played Mr. Sue on Fox’s “espionage comedy” The New Adventures of Beans Baxter from 1987 to 1989 . he also starred as the strict father of Robert Sean Leonard’s Neil Smith appeared on the Netflix show The Ranch as Mr. Peterson, a farmer dying of brain cancer . the couple divorced in 1974 . Smith married Joan Pirkle, who appeared with him in Robocop, in 1988 Smith has one daughter, Laurel Garner, and one son, Shannon Smith . Smith lives in Lafayette, California .