Art Smith

Known for ActingBorn 1899-03-22Died 1973-02-24Chicago, Illinois, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Nailed It!

The Hustler

Letter from an Unknown Woman

In a Lonely Place

South Sea Sinner

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Brute Force

Ride the Pink Horse

CBS Playhouse

Appointment in Berlin

Song of Surrender

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

Mason of the Mounted

T-Men

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Lux Video Theatre

The Black Parachute

Body and Soul

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Caught

The Sound of Fury

Framed

None Shall Escape

A Double Life

Native Land

Red, Hot and Blue

The Killer That Stalked New York

Edge of Darkness

The Moving Finger

Quicksand

Lights Out

Arch of Triumph

South of St. Louis

Rose of Cimarron

The Next Voice You Hear...

Angel in Exile

Just for You

Manhandled

Youth Runs Wild

The Painted Hills