Art Smith
Acting
Born 1899-03-22
Died 1973-02-24
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Arthur Gordon "Art" Smith (March 23, 1899 – 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.
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Filmography
Nailed It!
Lights Out
CBS Playhouse
Lux Video Theatre
The Hustler
Brute Force
In a Lonely Place
Caught
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Body and Soul
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Double Life
T-Men
Arch of Triumph
Edge of Darkness
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Red, Hot and Blue
Ride the Pink Horse
Quicksand
Framed
The Killer That Stalked New York
South of St. Louis
Mason of the Mounted
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
The Next Voice You Hear...
Youth Runs Wild
The Painted Hills
Just for You
South Sea Sinner
Angel in Exile
The Sound of Fury
Native Land
Appointment in Berlin
Manhandled
Rose of Cimarron
Song of Surrender
The Moving Finger
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
None Shall Escape
The Black Parachute
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