1. William M "Sonny" Landham III was an American actor.
15 Facts About Sonny Landham
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Sonny Landham was half Cherokee descent, one-eighth Seminole descent, and speculated the rest as German, English, and Irish descent.
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Sonny Landham attended Saint Mary's Catholic School and Darlington School before playing football for a year at the University of Georgia.
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Sonny Landham studied acting for two years at Pasadena Playhouse before moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career in acting.
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At the beginning of his acting career, Sonny Landham was an actor in pornographic films for financial reasons.
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Sonny Landham 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, 48 Hrs.
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In 2003, Sonny Landham ran in the Republican Party primary election for the post of Governor of Kentucky, hoping to repeat the success of his Predator castmates Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Sonny Landham based his candidacy on opposition to an amendment which endorsed the Kentucky Family Court, saying his bad experiences at the hands of the family court had convinced him it was for the benefit of lawyers rather than families or children.
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Sonny Landham ran briefly as an independent candidate, but withdrew on June 18,2003, and endorsed the Republican slate.
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In January 2004, Sonny Landham announced his candidacy for the 27th State Senate District of Kentucky.
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In 2005, Sonny Landham spoke at the Council of Conservative Citizens convention.
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On June 25,2008, Sonny Landham announced his candidacy for the US Senate seat held by Mitch McConnell, as a Libertarian.
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On July 23,2008, Sonny Landham appeared on the political radio show The Weekly Filibuster, where he was asked, in relation to past comments of his quoted in the Louisville Courier-Journal, if he was calling for the genocide of Arab people.
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Sonny Landham had four children, including a son named William, and a daughter named Priscilla.
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Sonny Landham died on August 17,2017, aged 76, from congestive heart failure.