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C. Aubrey Smith
Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (21 July 1863 – 20 December 1948) was a quintessential English gentleman whose career spanned both the cricket pitch and the silver screen. Born in London to a medical doctor, Charles John Smith, and Sarah Ann Clode, he received his education at Charterhouse School and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he first displayed his prodigious sporting talent. From 1882 to 1896 he bowled for Sussex, Cambridge University and the West Drayton Cricket Club, earning the nickname “Round the Corner Smith” for his unusual run‑up. His solitary Test appearance for England in 1889 was spectacular: he captained the side and claimed five wickets for nineteen runs, a performance that cemented his reputation as one of the era’s finest amateur bowlers. After a brief sojourn prospecting for gold in South Africa—where a bout of pneumonia mistakenly declared him dead—Smith returned to England, married Isabella Wood in 1896, and began to transition from sport to the stage.
In 1895 Smith made his London stage debut, quickly becoming a favorite for aristocratic and military roles. He crossed the Atlantic in the early 1920s, where his towering 6’2” frame, bushy eyebrows and handlebar moustache made him an instantly recognizable typecast as the dignified officer‑and‑gentleman. Over a prolific film career that lasted until his death, he appeared alongside Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor and Clark Gable in classics such as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), The Four Feathers (1939), Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and And Then There Were None (1945). He also founded the Hollywood Cricket Club in 1932, gathering expatriate British actors—including David Niven, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard—under his enthusiastic leadership, thereby extending his influence beyond cinema into cultural diplomacy. Knighted in 1944 for services to Anglo‑American amity, Sir C Aubrey Smith left a lasting legacy as a bridge between two worlds, passing away of pneumonia in Beverly Hills at the age of 85, with his ashes returned to England to rest beside his mother.
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Given Name: Charles Aubrey Smith
Born: London, England
Citizenship: British
Birthday: July 21, 1863
Occupations: cricketer, actor
Years Active: 1882-1948
Children: 1
Spouses: Isabella Wood
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Movies Featuring C. Aubrey Smith
Rebecca
Little Women
Another Thin Man
Waterloo Bridge
Complicated Women
The Scarlet Empress
Polly of the Circus
Secrets
Birds of Prey
Flesh and Fantasy
Unconquered
Beyond Tomorrow
Scotland Yard Investigator
The Gilded Lily
The Florentine Dagger
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Cleopatra
The Right to Live
But the Flesh Is Weak
We Live Again
Just a Gigolo
Passion Flower
Surrender
The House of Rothschild
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Rendezvous with Annie
Free and Easy
The Phantom of Paris
Trader Horn
Trouble in Paradise
Terror by Night
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Tarzan the Ape Man
Victoria the Great
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Man in Possession
Curtain at Eight
One More River
Guilty Hands
Wee Willie Winkie
And Then There Were None
An Ideal Husband
Jalna
Hollywood Extra Girl
Lloyd’s of London
Morning Glory
The Tunnel
Love Me Tonight
The Garden of Allah
The Prisoner of Zenda
Balalaika
Eternally Yours
East Side of Heaven
Kidnapped
Maisie Was a Lady
Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry
The Barbarian
The Crusades
The Hurricane
The Sun Never Sets
Queen Christina
Sensations of 1945
Show People
Gambling Lady
A Bill of Divorcement
The White Cliffs of Dover
The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Monkey’s Paw
No More Orchids
Adorable
Luxury Liner
Forever and a Day
Son of India
Cluny Brown
The Bachelor Father
Clive of India
Things You Never See on the Screen
Sixty Glorious Years
The Bohemian Girl
Five Came Back
Luxury Liner
China Seas
Career Timeline
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1946
Rendezvous with Annie
Archibald Clyde
Terror by Night
Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
Cluny Brown
Charles "Duff" Graham
1944
Sensations of 1945
Dan Lindsay
The White Cliffs of Dover
Walter Forsythe
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Oxford Chancellor
1939
Another Thin Man
Balalaika
General Karagin
Eternally Yours
Bishop Peabody
East Side of Heaven
Cyrus Barrett Sr.
The Sun Never Sets
John Randolph
Five Came Back
Henry Spengler
1937
Victoria the Great
(uncredited)
Wee Willie Winkie
Colonel Williams
The Prisoner of Zenda
Colonel Zapt
Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry
Peter Calverton
The Hurricane
Father Paul
1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Earl of Dorincourt
Lloyd’s of London
Old Q
The Garden of Allah
Father J. Roubier
1935
The Gilded Lily
Lloyd Granville
The Florentine Dagger
Gerard Lytton
The Right to Live
Major Liconda
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Major Hamilton
Jalna
Nicholas Whiteoaks
Hollywood Extra Girl
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Tunnel
Lloyd
The Crusades
The Hermit
Clive of India
Prime Minister
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
China Seas
Sir Guy Wilmerding
1934
The Scarlet Empress
Prince August
Cleopatra
Enobarbus
We Live Again
Prince Kortchagin
The House of Rothschild
Duke of Wellington
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Reginald Neilsen
One More River
General Charwell
Gambling Lady
Peter Madison
1933
Secrets
William Marlowe
Curtain at Eight
Detective Jim Hanley
Morning Glory
Hedges
The Barbarian
Cecil Harwood
Queen Christina
Aage
The Monkey’s Paw
Sergeant Major Morris
Adorable
Prime Minister Von Heynitz
Luxury Liner
Edward Thorndyke
1932
Polly of the Circus
James Northcott
But the Flesh Is Weak
Florian Clement
Trouble in Paradise
Adolph J. Giron
Tarzan the Ape Man
James Parker
Love Me Tonight
Duke d'Artelines
No More Orchids
Jerome Cedric
1931
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Mr. Pritchard
Just a Gigolo
George Hampton
Surrender
Count Reichendorf
The Phantom of Paris
Bourrelier
Trader Horn
St. Clair (uncredited)
The Man in Possession
Mr. Dabney
Guilty Hands
Reverend Hastings
Son of India
Dr. Wallace
The Bachelor Father
Basil "Chief" Winterton
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