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Movies starring Art Smith have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
The Hustler - released in 1961 - is Art Smith's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 587 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Art Smith is Youth Runs Wild - released in 1944 - with a score of 35% based on 4 reviews.
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.
Art Smith has acted in films with Dorothy Malone, Whit Bissell, George Magrill and Richard Gaines.
Art Smith has worked with these film directors: Robert Rossen, Alfred E. Green, Elia Kazan and Nicholas Ray.
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