C. AUBREY SMITH BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

C. Aubrey Smith was born on July 21st, 1983 in London, England with the birth name Charles Aubrey Smith.  After high school, he went on to earn a degree from Cambridge University.  He first relocated to South Africa between 1888-1889 to mind for gold and it was not until he was thirty years old that he decided to pursue a career as an actor, beginning as a stage actor.
 
He gained over twenty years experience as a stage actor before even attempting to enter the film industry.  Some of his stage credits included, "The Prisoner of Zenda" and on Broadway in, "Pygmalion".   
 
By the age of fifty he began appearing in small parts on a number of silent films such as, "John Glayde's Honor" and "The Builder of Bridges" (both 1915).
 
He did not make his real mark on the industry until the 1930's when sound films came about.  Some of his more prominent roles included, "Wee Willie Winkie" (1937) starring Shirley Temple, "The Four Feathers" (1939) co-starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson and June Duprez, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1941) starring Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman, "And Then There Were None" (1945) starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston and "Unconquered" (1947) starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard.
 
In addition to making a name for himself as an actor, he was also a cricketer when he played during college.  In 1932, he founded the Hollywood Cricket Club. 
 
Smith was on the first board of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933 and received the Order of the British Empire in 1938 and in 1944, he was knighted.  He was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.    
 
C. Aubrey Smith married only once to Isabelle Wood and together they had one child.  He remained working as an actor up until he passed away on December 20th, 1948 in Beverly Hills, California after suffering from pneumonia.  His remains were cremated and his ashes sent back to England and interred in his mother's grave at St. Leonard's Churchyard in Hove, East Sussex. 

 
Filmography

1949   Little Women 

1947   An Ideal Husband 

1947   Unconquered 

1947   High Conquest 

1946   Rendezvous with Annie 

1946   Cluny Brown

1945   And Then There Were None

1945   Scotland Yard Investigator 

1945   Forever Yours 

1944   Secrets of Scotland Yard

1944   The White Cliffs of Dover 

1944   The Adventures of Mark Twain 

1943   Madame Curie

1943   Flesh and Fantasy 

1943   Two Tickets to London 

1943   Forever and a Day

1941   Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

1941   Free and Easy

1941   Maisie Was a Lady

1940   A Little Bit of Heaven

1940   A Bill of Divorcement

1940   Waterloo Bridge

1940   Beyond Christmas

1940   Rebecca

1940   City of Chance

1939   Balalaika 

1939   Another Thin Man 

1939   Eternally Yours 

1939   The Under-Pup 

1939   Five Came Back

1939   The Sun Never Sets 

1939   The Four Feathers

1939   East Side of Heaven

1938   Queen of Destiny

1938   Kidnapped

1938   Four Men and a Prayer 

1937   Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

1937   The Hurricane

1937   Victoria the Great

1937   The Prisoner of Zenda

1937   Wee Willie Winkie

1936   Lloyd's of London

1936   The Garden of Allah 

1936   Romeo and Juliet

1936   Little Lord Fauntleroy

1936   The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope

1935   Transatlantic Tunnel 

1935   The Crusades 

1935   China Seas

1935   Jalna

1935   The Florentine Dagger 

1935   The Right to Live

1935   The Gilded Lily

1935   Clive of India 

1935   The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 

1934   The Firebird

1934   We Live Again 

1934   Cleopatra 

1934   Caravan

1934   Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 

1934   One More River

1934   The Scarlet Empress 

1934   Gambling Lady

1934   The House of Rothschild

1933   Queen Christina 

1933   Bombshell 

1933   Curtain at Eight 

1933   Morning Glory 

1933   Adorable 

1933   The Barbarian 

1933   Secrets 

1933   Luxury Liner 

1933   The Monkey's Paw 

1932   They Just Had to Get Married

1932   No More Orchids 

1932   Trouble in Paradise 

1932   Love Me Tonight 

1932     But the Flesh Is Weak 

1932   Tarzan the Ape Man 

1932   Polly of the Circus 

1931   Surrender

1931   The Phantom of Paris

1931   Guilty Hands

1931   Son of India

1931   The Man in Possession

1931   Just a Gigolo

1931   Never the Twain Shall Meet 

1931   Daybreak 

1931   Contraband Love 

1931   Trader Horn

1931   The Bachelor Father

1930   Passion Flower

1930   Such Is the Law

1930   The Perfect Alibi

1928   Show People 

1924   The Rejected Woman 

1924   The Unwanted 

1923   The Temptation of Carlton Earle

1922   Flames of Passion 

1922   The Bohemian Girl 

1920   The Shuttle of Life 

1920   The Bump 

1920   Castles in Spain

1920   The Face at the Window 

1918   Red Pottage

1916   The Witching Hour

1916   Jaffery

1915   John Glayde's Honor

1915   The Builder of Bridges