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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). In Hollywood, he organised British actors into a cricket team, much intriguing local spectators.
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.
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.
Sir C. Aubrey Smith, captain of Sussex and England, actor and film star, lived here. Beginning in 1963 a series of short cartoon segments featuring a character named Commander McBragg appeared on the animated television show ‘Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales’ .
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.___...
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).
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.
