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The Painted Hills

as Pilot Pete

1951
In a Lonely Place

as Mel Lippman

1950
Quicksand

as Oren Mackey

1950
The Sound of Fury

as Hal Clendenning

1950
The Killer That Stalked New York

as Anthony Moss

1950
Manhandled

as Detective Lt. Bill Dawson

1949
Caught

as Psychiatrist

1949
South of St. Louis

as Bronco

1949
Song of Surrender

as Mr. Willis

1949
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

as Dr. Harvey

1948
Ride the Pink Horse

as Bill Retz

1947
T-Men

as Gregg

1947
Framed

as Desk Clerk (uncredited)

1947
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1943
Native Land

as Harry Carlyle

1942
Art Smith Art Smith

Birthday

1899-03-23

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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 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.
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