William M. "Sonny" Landham (February 11, 1941-August 17, 2017) was an American film actor and stunt man who played tracker Billy Sole in the action movie Predator. Born in Canton, Georgia and raised in Rome, Georgia, He attended Saint Mary's Catholic School and Darlington School before playing football for a year at the University of Georgia. Landham was a descendant of the Cherokee and Seminole tribes. 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 Action Jackson. He spent three years in prison after being convicted on federal charges of making threatening and obscene phone calls to his wife before the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the conviction in May, 2001. In 2003, 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. He 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 that it was run for the benefit of lawyers rather than families or children. He was unsuccessful in gaining the party's nomination. He ran briefly as an independent candidate, but withdrew on June 18, and endorsed the Republican slate. In January 2004, Landham announced his candidacy for the 27th State Senate District of Kentucky. On June 25, 2008, Landham announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Mitch McConnell on the Libertarian line. He has been married five times and has four children. Landham passed away from congestive heart failure in Lexington, Kentucky on August 17, 2017, at the age of 76. Music for this video: That Kid in Fourth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/uvp/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/