1899-03-22 ( 126 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967-10-17
The Moving Finger
1963-12-01
Just for You
1952-09-27
Rose of Cimarron
1952-01-28
The Painted Hills
1951-05-04
The Sound of Fury
1950-12-12
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950-10-06
South Sea Sinner
1950-08-30
The Next Voice You Hear...
1950-06-29
In a Lonely Place
1950-05-17
Quicksand
1950-03-24
Song of Surrender
1949-10-27
Red, Hot and Blue
1949-09-05
Manhandled
1949-07-21
South of St. Louis
1949-03-06
Caught
1949-02-17
Angel in Exile
1948-10-20
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948-08-11
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948-04-28
Arch of Triumph
1948-02-17
A Double Life
1947-12-25
T-Men
1947-12-15
Body and Soul
1947-11-11
Ride the Pink Horse
1947-10-08
Brute Force
1947-07-16
Framed
1947-05-25
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945-02-28
Youth Runs Wild
1944-09-01
The Black Parachute
1944-05-04
None Shall Escape
1944-02-03
Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
Edge of Darkness
1943-04-09
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
1943-01-15
Native Land
1942-05-11
Mason of the Mounted
1932-05-14
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