
Art Smith
Biography
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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.
Acting (36 movies)

Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948

Quicksand
1950

The Killer That Stalked New York
1950

The Sound of Fury
1950

Brute Force
1947

Arch of Triumph
1948

A Double Life
1947

Rose of Cimarron
1952

Manhandled
1949

Caught
1949

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
1943

The Painted Hills
1951

The Next Voice You Hear...
1950

Body and Soul
1947

In a Lonely Place
1950

Ride the Pink Horse
1947

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1967

South of St. Louis
1949

Angel in Exile
1948

T-Men
1947

Song of Surrender
1949

Just for You
1952

Framed
1947

None Shall Escape
1944

Edge of Darkness
1943

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945

Native Land
1942

Youth Runs Wild
1944

Appointment in Berlin
1943

The Black Parachute
1944

South Sea Sinner
1950

The Moving Finger
1963

Red, Hot and Blue
1949

Mason of the Mounted
1932

The Hustler
1961
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