Overview

• A family spokesperson said he died Sept. 20 at his ranch in Skull Valley, Arizona after a long illness, aged 84.
• The Los Angeles native made his credited breakthrough at 16 as his father’s younger brother in the 1958 cult film Thunder Road.
• During the 1960s he appeared in war and action films including The Victors, In Harm’s Way, and Ambush Bay, among roughly 35 screen credits before retiring in 1994.
• In later years he bred Quarter Horses and launched moonshine and whiskey lines that paid tribute to his father’s film legacy.
• Survivors include his wife, Pamela K. Smith, whom he married in 2025, his children Will, Brian, Ana and Caitlin Ann, his siblings Christopher and Petrine, and a stepdaughter, with the family planning a private celebration of his life.