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Sir Charles Aubrey Smith CBE (21 July 1863 – 20 December 1948) was an English Test cricketer who became a stage and film actor, acquiring a niche as the officer-and-gentleman type, as in the first sound version of The Prisoner of Zenda (1937).
If the role called for the tall stereotypical Englishmen with the stiff upper lip and stern determination, that man would be C. Aubrey Smith, graduate of Cambridge University, a leading Freemason and a test cricketer for England.
If the role called for the tall stereotypical Englishmen with the stiff upper lip and stern determination, that man would be C. Aubrey Smith, graduate of Cambridge University, a leading Freemason and a test cricketer for England. Smith was 30 by the time he embarked upon a career on the stage.
OVERVIEW: Tall, thin, athletic, affable and focused as a youth, C. Aubrey Smith matured into an imposing figure who became the personification of an English gentleman for most moviegoers during the 1930s and 1940s.
C. Aubrey Smith, C.B.E. Smith played the role of the Chancellor of Oxford in The Adventures of Mark Twain , 1944, starring Frederic March in the title role. Smith was named a commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1938; King George VI knighted Smith in 1944.
Sir Charles Aubrey Smith CBE (July 21, 1863 – December 20, 1948) was an English actor and cricket player. He was known for his roles in The Four Fathers (1939), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), and in And Then There Were None (1945).
Sir Charles Aubrey Smith CBE (21 July 1863 – 20 December 1948) was an English Test cricketer who became a stage and film actor, acquiring a niche as the officer-and-gentleman type, as in the first sound version of The Prisoner of Zenda (1937).
C. Aubrey Smith (Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE) was an English born stage and screen actor, prominent in Hollywood films starting from the beginning of the sound era.
Aug 15, 2013 · Sir C. Aubrey Smith died on December 20, 1948 of pneumonia at the age of 85. Although he had no children of his own, he was the adoptive father of every transplanted Brit in Hollywood.
Tall, distinguished stage actor with memorable bushy eyebrows and thick moustache who entered films in 1915 but is best known for his numerous character roles for Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s; often cast as a crusty, blustery upper-class Brit....
