Art Smith (actor)

Art Smith
Born	Arthur Gordon Smith (1899-03-23)March 23, 1899 Chicago, U.S.
Died	February 24, 1973(1973-02-24) (aged 73) Long Island, NY, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1924–1967

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.

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). In 1957, he originated the role of Doc in the stage version of West Side Story.

The grey-haired actor usually played studious types in films. One of his last movie roles was in The Hustler in an uncredited part. He worked on television before finally retiring in 1967.

Smith was one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist, which ended his film career in 1952. He died, aged 73, in Long Island, New York, from a heart attack.

Broadway roles

• Broken Dishes (1929) as Sam Green

• The House of Connelly (1931) as Jesse Tate

• Success Story (1932) as Marcus Turner

• Night Over Taos as Captain Mumford

• Awake and Sing! (1935) and (1939) as Myron Berger

• Men in White (1933) as Mr. Hudson

• Waiting For Lefty (1935) as henchman

• Johnny Johnson (1936) as Sgt. Jackson, and as Doctor and as Brother Thomas

• Golden Boy (1937) as Tokio

• Rocket to the Moon (1938) as Phillip Cooper, D.D.S

• West Side Story (1957) as Doc

• All the Way Home (1960) as Father Jackson

Partial filmography

• Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
• Education for Death (1943) (narrator of animated short)
• Edge of Darkness (1943)
• None Shall Escape (1944)
• Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) (uncredited)
• Brute Force (1947)
• Body and Soul (1947)
• Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
• T-Men (1947) (uncredited)
• A Double Life (1947)
• Arch of Triumph (1948)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
• Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
• Caught (1949)
• Manhandled (1949)
• Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
• Quicksand (1950)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• The Next Voice You Hear (1950)
• The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
• The Sound of Fury (1950)
• The Painted Hills (1951)
• The Hustler (1961) (uncredited)

External links

• Art Smith at IMDb
• Art Smith at AllMovie
• Art Smith at the Internet Broadway Database
• Art Smith at Find a Grave