Sir C Aubrey Smith

Charles Aubrey Smith
1863 - 1948 (pneumonia)
British born London

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m) . Movie roles are sometimes based upon what the audience expects to see. 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. It took another 20 plus years before he entered the flickering images of the movies. By 1915, Smith was over 50 in a medium that demanded young actors and starlets. For the next ten years, he appeared in a rather small number of silent movies, and after that, he faded from the scene. It was in 1930, with the advent of sound, that Smith found his position in the movies and that position would be distinguished roles. He played military officers, successful business men, ministers of the cloth and ministers of government. With the bushy eyebrows and stoic face, he played men who know about honour, tradition, and the correct path. He worked with big stars such as Greta Garbo,Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Shirley Temple. As for honours, Smith received the Order of the British Empire in 1938 and was knighted in 1944. He continued to work up to the time of his death. Spouse Honor (? - 20 December 1948) (his death) 1 child.

Little Women (1949) , An Ideal Husband (1947) , Unconquered (1947) , High Conquest (1947) , Rendezvous with Annie (1946) , Cluny Brown (1946) , And Then There Were None (1945) , Scotland Yard Investigator (1945) , Forever Yours (1945) , Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944) , Sensations of 1945 (1944) , The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) , The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) , Madame Curie (1943) , Flesh and Fantasy (1943) , Two Tickets to London (1943) , Forever and a Day (1943) , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) , Free and Easy (1941) , Maisie Was a Lady (1941) , A Little Bit of Heaven (1940) , Beyond Tomorrow (1940) , A Bill of Divorcement (1940) , Waterloo Bridge (1940) , Rebecca (1940) , City of Chance (1940) , Balalaika (1939) , Another Thin Man (1939) , Eternally Yours (1939), The Under-Pup (1939) , Five Came Back (1939) , The Sun Never Sets (1939) , The Four Feathers (1939) , East Side of Heaven (1939) , Sixty Glorious Years (1938), Kidnapped (1938) , Four Men and a Prayer (1938) , Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) , The Hurricane (1937) , Victoria the Great (1937) , The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) , Wee Willie Winkie (1937) , Lloyd's of London (1936) , The Garden of Allah (1936) , Romeo and Juliet (1936) , Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) , The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope (1936) , The Tunnel (1935) , The Crusades (1935) , China Seas (1935) , Jalna (1935) , The Florentine Dagger (1935) , The Right to Live (1935) , The Gilded Lily (1935) , The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) , Clive of India (1935) , The Firebird (1934) , We Live Again (1934) , Cleopatra (1934) , Caravan (1934/I) , The Scarlet Empress (1934) , Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) , One More River (1934) , Gambling Lady (1934) , The House of Rothschild (1934) , Queen Christina (1933) , Bombshell (1933) , Curtain at Eight (1933) , Morning Glory (1933) , The Monkey's Paw (1933) , Adorable (1933) , The Barbarian (1933) , Secrets (1933) , Luxury Liner (1933) , They Just Had to Get Married (1933) , No More Orchids (1932) , Trouble in Paradise (1932) , Love Me Tonight (1932) , -But the Flesh Is Weak (1932) , Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) , Polly of the Circus (1932) , Surrender (1931) , The Phantom of Paris (1931) , Guilty Hands (1931) , Son of India (1931) , The Man in Possession (1931) , Just a Gigolo (1931) , Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931) , Daybreak (1931) , Trader Horn (1931) , The Bachelor Father (1931) , Contraband Love (1931) , Passion Flower (1930) , Birds of Prey (1930) , Such Is the Law (1930) , Show People (1928), The Rejected Woman (1924) , The Unwanted (1924) , The Temptation of Carlton Earle (1923) , The Bohemian Girl (1922) , Flames of Passion (1922) , The Bump (1920) , Castles in Spain (1920) , The Face at the Window (1920) , The Shuttle of Life (1920) , Red Pottage (1918) , The Witching Hour (1916) , Jaffery (1916) , John Glayde's Honor (1915) , The Builder of Bridges (1915)