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C. Aubrey Smith. 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). In Hollywood, he organised British actors into a cricket team, much intriguing ...
C. Aubrey Smith was a British actor who appeared in silent and sound movies from 1915 to 1949. He played authoritative and dignified roles, such as Colonel Julyan in Rebecca and Gen. Sir John Mandrake in And Then There Were None.
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
C. Aubrey Smith was a British actor who played distinguished roles in silent and sound movies. He was also a cricketer, a Freemason and a knight who worked with Greta Garbo and Shirley Temple.
- July 21, 1863
- December 20, 1948
Here are 10 things you should know about C. Aubrey Smith, born on July 21, 1863. He exemplified the stiff-upper-lip English gentleman on stage and screen.___...
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Oddly enough, while a young man, Smith had settled in South Africa to prospect for gold in 1888-89. While there he developed pneumonia and was wrongly pronounced dead by doctors. Fifty years on, in 1948, Smith did actually succumb pneumonia. He died in Beverly Hills at age 85. 4 thoughts on “C. Aubrey Smith, a Most Familiar Face”.
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1916. The Witching Hour as Jack Brookfield. 1916. Jaffery as Jaffery. 1915. John Glayde's Honor as John Glayde. 1915. The Builder of Bridges as Edward Thursfield. 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.