Art Smith
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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
Movie
The Hustler
1961
Movie
In a Lonely Place
as Mel Lippman
1950
Movie
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as John
1948
Movie
Brute Force
as Dr. Walters
1947
Movie
Body and Soul
as David Davis (uncredited)
1947
Movie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Charley (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Caught
as Psychiatrist
1949
Movie
T-Men
as Gregg
1947
Movie
A Double Life
as Wigmaker
1947
TV
Nailed It!
as Self - Judge
2018
Movie
Ride the Pink Horse
as Bill Retz
1947
Movie
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Movie
The Sound of Fury
as Hal Clendenning
1950
Movie
Framed
as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1947
Movie
Quicksand
as Oren Mackey
1950
Movie
Arch of Triumph
as Inspector
1948
Movie
Edge of Darkness
as Knut Osterholm
1943
Movie
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Anthony Moss
1950
Movie
None Shall Escape
as Stys
1944
Movie
The Painted Hills
as Pilot Pete
1951
Movie
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
as Dr. Harvey
1948
Movie
South of St. Louis
as Bronco
1949
Movie
Manhandled
as Detective Lt. Bill Dawson
1949
Movie
Native Land
as Harry Carlyle
1942