Dean Smith
Acting
Born 1932-01-15
Died 2023-06-24
Breckenridge, Texas, USA
56 credits
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Dean Smith was raised in Eliasville, Texas, and later lived in Breckenridge, Texas, where he raised horses and longhorn cattle. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he competed in track and football. He won an Olympic gold medal for the 400-meter relay in the 1952 Helsinki games and finished fourth in the 100 dash in the closest race in Olympic history. He was the lead-off man on the University of Texas world record relay team, 1954-55, and AAU national champion in the 100-meter dash. He played with the Los Angeles Rams during exhibition season and was traded to the Pittsburg Steelers at which time he decided to enter the movie business. He also won amateur rodeo championships for bareback bronco riding and calf roping.
He was an honorary member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame (2006), the Texas Sports Hall of Fame (1985), Stuntman's Hall of Fame (1980), and the University of Texas Hall of Fame (1980). He was awarded the American Culture Award for Western Movies and Television (2000), the Golden Boot Award in 1998, the Ben Johnson Award in 1993, the All-American Cowboy Award in 1997, and the Head of the Class Alvin Davis Award in 2002.
In 2002, he organized the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo benefiting the Cowboy Cancer Crusade tribute to Ben Johnson, the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo benefiting the John Wayne Cancer Institute honoring John Wayne, and, in 2006, the Dean Smith Celebrity Rodeo benefiting the John Wayne Cancer Institute honoring The Singing Cowboys in Abilene, Texas, the third weekend in October. On April 8, 2006, the John Wayne Cancer Institute honored him with the "Duke Award" for his contributions to cancer research.
In 2023, Dean Smith died of cancer, aged 91, in Breckenridge, Texas.
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Filmography
Acting
25 credits
The Six Million Dollar Man
Rio Bravo
True Grit
El Dorado
Raw Deal
The Alamo
Earthquake
Rio Lobo
Creepshow 2
Big Jake
Ulzana's Raid
The Sugarland Express
Cheyenne Autumn
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Rhinestone
Auntie Mame
The Cheyenne Social Club
Seven Alone
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
Hickey & Boggs
Squares
Mackintosh and T.J.
Mrs. Sundance
John Wayne: Working with a Western Legend
Other credits
44 credits
The Sting
The Quick and the Dead
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rio Bravo
True Grit
El Dorado
Christine
The Towering Inferno
Maverick
Westworld
How the West Was Won
Hardcore
The Alamo
Earthquake
McLintock!
Airport
Airport 1975
Rio Lobo
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Concorde... Airport '79
The War Wagon
Ulzana's Raid
In Harm's Way
Cheyenne Autumn
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Auntie Mame
The Great Waldo Pepper
Two Rode Together
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
The Train Robbers
The Cheyenne Social Club
The Stalking Moon
Sometimes a Great Notion
The Scalphunters
PT 109
Rio Conchos
Seven Ways from Sundown
Hickey & Boggs
Hearts of the West
Keys to Tulsa
FM
The Legend of the Golden Gun
Mackintosh and T.J.
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