Aubrey Smith

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Sir C. Aubrey Smith England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm fast (RF)
	Tests	First-class
Matches	1	143
Runs scored	3	2986
Batting average	3.00	32.06
100s/50s	0/0	0/10
Top score	3	85
Balls bowled	154	17964
Wickets	7	346
Bowling average	8.71	22.34
5 wickets in innings	1	10
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	5/19	7/16
Catches/stumpings	0/0	97/0
Test debut: 12 March 1889 Last Test: 13 March 1889 Source: [1]

Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (known as Sir C. Aubrey Smith, or more famously to moviegoers as simply C. Aubrey Smith), (born 21 July 1863 in London, died 20 December 1948 in Beverly Hills) was an English cricketer and actor. He was knighted in 1944 for services to Anglo-American amity. As a cricketer, he had the nickname "Round the Corner Smith". He played for Cambridge University 1882-85; for Sussex at various time between 1882-92^[1] and played in one Test match in which he captained England and which the team won.

1 Life and Career
2 Selected filmography
3 Reference
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Life and Career

Smith was educated at Charterhouse School and Cambridge University^[2] and settled in South Africa to prospect for gold in 1888-89 and where he captained the Johannesburg English XI^[3]. While he was in South Africa he developed pneumonia and was wrongly pronounced dead by doctors.

Smith began acting on the London stage in 1895. His first major role was in The Prisoner of Zenda. Forty-two years later he appeared in the most acclaimed film version of the novel. He married Isabella Wood in 1896.

Smith later went to Hollywood where he had a successful career as a character actor playing either officer or gentleman roles. His bushy eyebrows, beady eyes, handlebar moustache and a height of 6'7" made him one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood. As an actor he starred alongside such screen legends as Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper.

The cartoon character Commander McBragg from Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a parody of him. Commander McBragg also appears in The Simpsons episode The Seemingly Never-Ending Story.

His star appears on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 1933 he was on the first board of the Screen Actors Guild.

He helped set up the Hollywood Cricket Club.

He died from pneumonia in Beverly Hills, California, USA in 1948.