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Jul 21, 2018 · What a delight it was, and not a shock, to learn that quintessential English character actor C. Aubrey Smith (1863-1948), who appeared in such films as Rebecca (1940), Waterloo Bridge (1940), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) and And Then Were None (1945), began his professional life as a cricket player.
Cricket career Smith in about 1895. As a cricketer, Smith was primarily a right arm fast bowler, though he was also a useful right-hand lower-order batsman and a good slip fielder. His oddly curved bowling run-up, which started from deep mid-off, earned him the nickname "Round the Corner Smith".
- Right-handed
- 21 July 1863, London, England
- Charles Aubrey Smith
- 20 December 1948 (aged 85), Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
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Died. December 20, 1948, Beverly Hills, California, United States of America, (aged 85y 152d) Also Known As. Sir Aubrey Smith, 'Round The Corner' Smith. Batting Style. Right hand Bat. Bowling...
- Male
- August 21, 1863
- England
Sir C Aubrey Smith is perhaps best remembered as a film star playing the typical English gentleman but in his earlier days he was captain of the Sussex County Cricket Club team and for one match the captain of England, on his England debut. Smith was a tall fast-medium bowler with a particularly high action.
But despite his success as an actor, in some circles Aubrey Smith was (and still is) better known as a talented cricket player. The sport of cricket was an important part of Aubrey’s life from the time he was able to hold a cricket bat, and it played a significant role in forming his character.
Smith, who held a degree from Cambridge, was a championship Cricket player in Britain and South Africa. He appeared frequently on the London stage and when he turned to film, moved to Hollywood. He appeared in dozens of films, the perfect British officer, European aristocrat, grandfatherly gentleman, and sometimes even a villain.
Sir Charles Aubrey Smith 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.
