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 Act...
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Complete Filmography

Mental Scars
2009
as Chief Bear
An investor buys an old junkyard and plans to convert it into a parking lot. She has no idea it sits on top of a Native American burial ground, or tha...

Disintegration
2007
as Boone Cagle
Charles Wilcox III finds himself on the street after the death of his Grand Dad. His anxiety disintegrates into complete madness, pulling others with ...

2090
1996
as Indian
Two men awaken from a long cryogenic sleep, to do battle in a future as primitive and violent as the remote past. California has become an arid island...

Billy Lone Bear
1996
as Billy Lone Bear
An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy...

Billy Lone Bear
1996
Director
An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy...

Carnival of Wolves
1995
as One-Eyed Jack
Four men plan a robbery in a pub

Guns & Lipstick
1995
as Albino
A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfathe...
Blue Vanities 257
1995
as (archive footage)

Twisted Fate
1995
as Brick
A FBI agent going back to his home town. He have to decide if he should be true to his job or take care of his brother who is on the wrong side of the...
Night Realm
1994
as Verrick
Action-fantasy.

Taxi Dancers
1994
as Diamond Jim
This sleazy little drama offers a grim slice from the lives of those who work in a seedy LA dime-a-dance ballroom.

Best of the Best 2
1993
as James
In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by W...

Three Days to a Kill
1992
as Pepe
An army colonel enlists a mercenary to rescue a kidnapped ambassador from a Colombian drug lord within a three-day deadline.

Maximum Force
1992
as Pimp
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.

Lock Up
1989
as Chink Weber
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Dru...

Action Jackson
1988
as Mr. Quick
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Predator
1987
as Billy Sole
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Firewalker
1986
as El Coyote
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Northstar
1986
as Becker
An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acqui...

Fortune Dane
1986
as Killer
Carl Weathers is a former championship athlete turned police officer. He is about to face the most vicious challenge of his life in this action packed...

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
1985
as Sam Sixkiller
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their ...

Fleshburn
1984
as Calvin Duggai
A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distin...

48 Hrs.
1982
as Billy Bear
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Poltergeist
1982
as Pool Worker
Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.

Southern Comfort
1981
as Hunter
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing ...

Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle
1981
as (archive footage)
Annie Sprinkle presents a personal account of her life, introducing vignettes showing off her sexual fantasies.

Gloria
1980
as Riverside Drive Man #8
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters...

The Warriors
1979
as Police
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader ki...

The Warriors
1979
as Policeman in Subway Station
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader ki...

The Ganja Express
1978
as First Yellow Toga Guy (uncredited)
Toni is a smart drug smuggler, living in a luxuriously home by the beach. The pot (ganja) producers pack it in crates, take it from Jamaica to a preci...

Misbehavin'
1978
as Clyde
Lovely and rich Rita has a habit of marrying wealthy men, only to divorce them when someone with a bigger bank account comes along, but not before cle...

The Trouble with Young Stuff
1977
as Lane the Milkman
Alice is afraid that the visit from her cousin Matilda will rekindle their lust for each other. Matilda's young passion slowly spreads to Alice, her r...

Big Thumbs
1977
The reserved Andrea Dove becomes a nymphomaniac when she bumps her head while stuck in an elevator. She sets out on a quest to find the ultimate sexua...

The Honey Cup
1976
The golden juice brought sweetness to their lips.

Sylvia
1976
as Junkie #1
Sylvia is seemingly a quiet, reserved, saintly person living on a quiet, reserved well-manicured street in upper-middle class suburbia. However, Sylvi...

Slippery When Wet
1976
as Dougie Knowles
Crystal Sync – a sly, charismatic, and assertive Southern girl – works as an erotic model who seduces a female artist and her friends with the help of...
Virgin Snow
1976
as Ben
A sexually explicit search of a woman to find the one man, that perfect union, that will give her the always near, and yet very elusive moment of tota...

Blood Bath
1975
The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.

The Defiance of Good
1975
as Dr. Gabriel's Patient
Under the influence of her "bad" friend, Cathy is caught experimenting with drugs by her religious mother. The parents feel the best thing for their w...

Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town
1975
as Bo
Abigail Leslie has been away for years but has now returned to the small town of Baypoint, where her sexual appetite made her infamous. Abigail is a w...

Big Abner
1975
as Big Abner
In this parody of the comic strip "Li'l Abner", a hillbilly named Big Abner, who is the "champion of the mountain folk", spends much of his time pleas...

The Passions of Carol
1975
as Curt Reynolds
Carol Scrooge, the curmudgeonly owner of a sleazy skin publication, insists that her employees work on Christmas. However, on Christmas eve, Miss Scro...

The Bite
1975
as Tex
Set in the early 1930's, 'The Big Con' (aka 'The Bite') is a colorful parody of 'The Sting' combining sex, comedy and monkey business. Three cons (Swe...

The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann
1974
as Political Candidate
A housewife is tracked by a private investigator hired by her wealthy husband.

The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego
1974
as Huntington Van Huff
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.

Cheese
1974
as Tex
Big Tex Bullwanger rolls out of Texas and into the Big Apple for hot action. Brawny, if light on brain, Tex may be slow but he's far from dumb! He's g...

The Love Bus
1974
as Amos Johnson
Dr. Scheisekopf (Jamie Gillis) advises patient Jennifer Jordan (aka Sarah Nicholson) to get away for the weekend. When the bus she travels on crashes,...

Happy Days
1974
as French Cook
A sexy salute to bobby sox, be-bop, falsies, and everything else that makes the 50's worth remembering. The first X-rated hardcore porn film to be mar...

Come Fly with Us
1974
as Joe
A hard and penetrating look into the lives of gorgeous stewardesses.

Special Order
1974
as Teamster #1
Comely, but ditsy and underage diner waitress Karla gets paid by a sleazy customer to have sex with him in an office building. Karla enjoys the experi...

The Lost Man
1969
as (uncredited)
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."