Bill Smitrovich Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended college part-time while working as a bartender, as a waiter and at a plastic film company
• Appeared as Lennie in Of Mice and Men during his junior year of college at the urging of a friend
• Taught acting at the University of Massachusetts
• Got his big break in 1980 as an understudy in Arthur Miller's American Clock at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S
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• After the lead became ill on opening night, he stepped into the role and so impressed Miller that he was cast as the lead for the play's Broadway run
• Hosted the Life Goes On Celebrity Golf Classic during the run of Life Goes On
• Received the Michael Landon Humanitarian Award in 1993 for his work with the Down Syndrome Congress