Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
3/22/1899
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Arthur Gordon Smith
Art Smith
Biography
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...
Known For
The Hustler
Unknown Role
Native Land
as Harry Carlyle
Framed
as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Brute Force
as Dr. Walters
T-Men
as Gregg
Caught
as Psychiatrist
Quicksand
as Oren Mackey
In a Lonely Place
as Mel Lippman
Arch of Triumph
as Inspector
The Sound of Fury
as Hal Clendenning
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Painted Hills
as Pilot Pete
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Charley (uncredited)
Body and Soul
as David Davis (uncredited)
South of St. Louis
as Bronco
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as John
The Next Voice You Hear...
as Fred Brannan
Ride the Pink Horse
as Bill Retz
A Double Life
as Wigmaker
Just for You
as Leo