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Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE 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.
Birth Name
Charles Aubrey Smith
Born
Tuesday, 21 July 1863
Died
Monday, 20 December 1948
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| 100 Years of Horror | Self | 1996 |
| Northern Exposure | Colonel Zapt | 1990 |
| Bloopermania | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| Little Women | Mr. Laurence | 1949 |
| Luxury Liner | Edward Thorndike | 1948 |
| An Ideal Husband | The Earl of Caversham / Earl of Caversham | 1947 |
| Unconquered | Lord Chief Justice | 1947 |
| High Conquest | Col. Hugh Bunning | 1947 |
| Rendezvous with Annie | Sir Archibald Clyde / Archibald Clyde | 1946 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| 100 Years of Horror | Self | 1996 |
| Northern Exposure | Colonel Zapt | 1990 |
| Bloopermania | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| Little Women | Mr. Laurence | 1949 |
| Luxury Liner | Edward Thorndike | 1948 |
| An Ideal Husband | The Earl of Caversham / Earl of Caversham | 1947 |
| Unconquered | Lord Chief Justice | 1947 |
| High Conquest | Col. Hugh Bunning | 1947 |
| Rendezvous with Annie | Sir Archibald Clyde / Archibald Clyde | 1946 |
| Cluny Brown | Col. Charles Duff Graham / Charles "Duff" Graham | 1946 |
| Terror by Night | Elderly Gentleman on Train Station | 1946 |
| And Then There Were None | Gen. Sir John Mandrake / John Mandrake | 1945 |
| Scotland Yard Investigator | Sir James Collison / James Collison | 1945 |
| Forever Yours | Grandfather | 1945 |
| Secrets of Scotland Yard | Sir Christopher Pelt | 1944 |
| The Adventures of Mark Twain | Oxford Chancellor | 1944 |
| Sensations of 1945 | Dan Lindsay | 1944 |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Colonel Walter Forsythe / Walter Forsythe | 1944 |
| Madame Curie | Lord Kelvin | 1943 |
| Flesh and Fantasy | Dean of Norwalk (Episode 2) / Dean of Norwalk (segment 2) | 1943 |
| Two Tickets to London | Admiralty Detective Fairchild | 1943 |
| Forever and a Day | Adm. Eustace Trimble / Eustace Trimble | 1943 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | The Bishop | 1941 |
| Free and Easy | The Duke | 1941 |
| Maisie Was a Lady | Walpole / Al Walpole | 1941 |
| A Little Bit of Heaven | Grandpa | 1940 |
| A Bill of Divorcement | Dr. Alliot | 1940 |
| Waterloo Bridge | The Duke | 1940 |
| Beyond Tomorrow | Allan Chadwick / Allan 'Chad' Chadwick | 1940 |
| Rebecca | Colonel Julyan | 1940 |
| City of Chance | The Judge | 1940 |
| Balalaika | Gen. Karagin / General Karagin | 1939 |
| Another Thin Man | Colonel MacFay / Burr MacFay | 1939 |
| Eternally Yours | Gramps aka Bishop Peabody / Bishop Peabody | 1939 |
| The Under-Pup | Grandpa | 1939 |
| Five Came Back | Prof. Henry Spengler / Henry Spengler | 1939 |
| The Sun Never Sets | Sir John Randolph / John Randolph | 1939 |
| The Four Feathers | General Burroughs | 1939 |
| East Side of Heaven | Cyrus Barrett Snr. / Cyrus Barrett Sr. | 1939 |
| Queen of Destiny | Duke of Wellington | 1938 |
| Kidnapped | Duke of Argyle | 1938 |
| Four Men and a Prayer | Colonel Loring Leigh / Loring Leigh | 1938 |
| Thoroughbreds Don't Cry | Sir Peter Calverton / Peter Calverton | 1937 |
| The Hurricane | Father Paul | 1937 |
| Victoria the Great | Minor Role | 1937 |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Colonel Zapt | 1937 |
| Wee Willie Winkie | Colonel Williams / Col. Williams | 1937 |
| Lloyd's of London | Old 'Q' / Old Q | 1936 |
| The Garden of Allah | Father J. Roubier | 1936 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Lord Capulet / Capulet | 1936 |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | The Earl of Dorincourt / Earl of Dorincourt | 1936 |
| Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935 |
| Transatlantic Tunnel | Lloyd | 1935 |
| The Crusades | The Hermit | 1935 |
| Hollywood Extra Girl | Crusades Actor | 1935 |
| Jalna | Uncle Nicholas Whiteoak / Nicholas Whiteoaks | 1935 |
| China Seas | Sir Guy / Guy Wilmerding | 1935 |
| The Florentine Dagger | Dr. Lytton / Gerard Lytton | 1935 |
| The Right to Live | Major Licondra / Major Liconda | 1935 |
| The Gilded Lily | Lloyd Granton, Duke of Loamshire / Lloyd Granton | 1935 |
| Clive of India | Prime Minister | 1935 |
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Maj. Hamilton / Major Hamilton | 1935 |
| The Firebird | Police Inspector Miller | 1934 |
| We Live Again | Prince Kortchagin | 1934 |
| Cleopatra | Enobarbus | 1934 |
| Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back | Colonel Alfred Reginald Neilsen / Reginald Neilsen | 1934 |
| One More River | Gen. Charwell / General Charwell | 1934 |
| The Scarlet Empress | Prince August | 1934 |
| The House of Rothschild | Duke of Wellington | 1934 |
| Gambling Lady | Peter Madison | 1934 |
| Queen Christina | Aage | 1934 |
| Caravan | Baron von Tokay | 1934 |
| Bombshell | Mr. Middleton | 1933 |
| Curtain at Eight | Jim Hanvey - Detective / Detective Jim Hanley | 1933 |
| Morning Glory | Robert Harley Hedges / Bob Hedges | 1933 |
| Adorable | The Prime Minister, Von Heynitz / Prime Minister Von Heynitz | 1933 |
| The Barbarian | Cecil Harwood | 1933 |
| Secrets | Mr. William Marlowe / William Marlowe | 1933 |
| Luxury Liner | Edward Thorndyke | 1933 |
| They Just Had to Get Married | Aubrey Hampton | 1933 |
| No More Orchids | Jerome Cedric | 1932 |
| Trouble in Paradise | Adolph J. Giron | 1932 |
| Love Me Tonight | Duke d'Artelines | 1932 |
| -But the Flesh Is Weak | Florian Clement | 1932 |
| Tarzan the Ape Man | James Parker | 1932 |
| Polly of the Circus | Rev. James Northcott / James Northcott | 1932 |
| Surrender | Count Reichendorf | 1931 |
| Contraband Love | Paul Machin, JP | 1931 |
| The Phantom of Paris | Bourrelier | 1931 |
| Guilty Hands | Reverend Hastings | 1931 |
| Son of India | Dr. Wallace | 1931 |
| The Man in Possession | Mr. Dabney | 1931 |
| Just a Gigolo | Lord George Hampton / George Hampton | 1931 |
| Never the Twain Shall Meet | Mr. Pritchard | 1931 |
| Daybreak | General von Hertz | 1931 |
| The Perfect Alibi | Arthur Hilton | 1931 |
| Trader Horn | St. Clair - a Trader | 1931 |
| The Bachelor Father | Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton / Basil "Chief" Winterton | 1931 |
| Passion Flower | Man at Ferry Boat Pier | 1930 |
| Such Is the Law | Sir James Whittaker / James Whittaker | 1930 |
| Show People | Extra at Movie Preview | 1928 |
| The Rejected Woman | Peter Leslie | 1924 |
| The Unwanted | Colonel Carrington | 1924 |
| The Temptation of Carlton Earle | Carlton Earle | 1923 |
| Flames of Passion | Richard Hawke, K.C. / Richard Hawke KC | 1922 |
| The Bohemian Girl | Devilshoof | 1922 |
| The Shuttle of Life | Reverend John Stone | 1920 |
| The Face at the Window | Bentinck | 1920 |
| Castles in Spain | The builder | 1920 |
| Red Pottage | Lord Newhaven | 1918 |
| Jaffery | Jaffery | 1916 |
| John Glayde's Honor | John Glayde | 1915 |
