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Arthur Gordon "Art" Smith (March 23, 1899 β February 24, 1973) was an American film, stage and television actor, best known for playing supporting roles in the 1940s.
Born in Chicago, he was a member of the Group Theatre and performed in many of their productions, including Rocket to the Moon, Awake and Sing!, Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, all by Clifford Odets; House of Connelly by Paul Green; and Sidney Kingsley's Men in White. The gray-haired actor usually played studious and dignified types in films, such as doctors or butlers.
Smith appeared in many black-and-white noirish films in supporting roles alongside more handsome and popular movie leads, such as John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947) and Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (1950). He had a key role as a federal agent in 1947's Ride the Pink Horse, starring and directed by Robert Montgomery. Two of these films, In a Lonely Place and Ride a Pink Horse, were based on novels by Dorothy B. Hughes.
Smith was one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist, which ended most of his film career in 1952. In 1957, he originated the role of Doc in the stage version of West Side Story. Smith only returned occasionally to the film business, for example in an uncredited part in The Hustler. He also worked on television before retiring in 1967. He died, aged 73, in Long Island, New York, from a heart attack.
Filmography
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Movies 35
TV Shows 4
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Narrator 1
Nailed It! (2018)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967)
CBS Playhouse (1966)
The Moving Finger (1963)
Just for You (1952)
Rose of Cimarron (1952)
The Painted Hills (1951)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
Lux Video Theatre (1950)
South Sea Sinner (1950)
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Quicksand (1950)
Song of Surrender (1949)
Red Hot and Blue (1949)
Manhandled (1949)
Lights Out (1949)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Caught (1949)
Angel in Exile (1948)
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
A Double Life (1947)
T-Men (1947)
Body and Soul (1947)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Framed (1947)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Youth Runs Wild (1944)
The Black Parachute (1944)
None Shall Escape (1944)
Appointment in Berlin (1943)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi (1943)
Native Land (1942)
Mason of the Mounted (1932)
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GenderMale
Birthday1899-03-23
Deathday1973-02-24 (73 years old)
Birth NameArthur Gordon Smith
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsArthur Gordon Smith
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