C. Aubrey Smith
Acting
Biography
C. Aubrey Smith (Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE) was an English born stage and screen actor, prominent in Hollywood films starting from the beginning of the sound era.
Born: July 19, 1863
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Waterloo Bridge
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Lloyd's of London
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Cluny Brown
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Another Thin Man
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Mr. Laurence
as Edward Thorndike
as Earl of Caversham
as Lord Chief Justice
as Col. Hugh Bunning
as Archibald Clyde
as Charles "Duff" Graham
as Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
as John Mandrake
as James Collison
as Grandfather
as Sir Christopher Pelt
as Oxford Chancellor
as Dan Lindsay
as Walter Forsythe
as Lord Kelvin
as Dean of Norwalk (segment 2)
as Admiralty Detective Fairchild
as Eustace Trimble
as The Bishop
as The Duke
as Al Walpole
as Grandpa
as Dr. Alliot
as The Duke
as Allan 'Chad' Chadwick
as Colonel Julyan
as The Judge
as General Karagin
as Burr MacFay
as Bishop Peabody
as Grandpa
as Henry Spengler
as John Randolph
as General Burroughs
as Cyrus Barrett Sr.
as Duke of Wellington
as Duke of Argyle
as Loring Leigh
as Peter Calverton
as Father Paul
as Colonel Zapt
as (uncredited)
as Colonel Williams
as Old Q
as Father J. Roubier
as Lord Capulet
as Earl of Dorincourt
as Lloyd
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
as The Hermit
as Sir Guy Wilmerding
as Nicholas Whiteoaks
as Gerard Lytton
as Major Liconda
as Lloyd Granville
as Prime Minister
as Major Hamilton
as Baron von Tokay
as Police Inspector Miller
as Prince Kortchagin
as Enobarbus
as Reginald Neilsen
as General Charwell
as Prince August
as Duke of Wellington
as Peter Madison
as Aage
as Mr. Middleton
as Detective Jim Hanley
as Hedges
as Prime Minister Von Heynitz
as Cecil Harwood
as William Marlowe
as Edward Thorndyke
as Sergeant Major Morris
as Aubrey Hampton
as Jerome Cedric
as Adolph J. Giron
as Duke d'Artelines
as Florian Clement
as James Parker
as James Northcott
as Count Reichendorf
as Bourrelier
as Reverend Hastings
as Dr. Wallace
as Mr. Dabney
as George Hampton
as Mr. Pritchard
as General Von Hertz
as Paul Machin, JP
as St. Clair (uncredited)
as Basil "Chief" Winterton
as Man at Ferry Boat Pier (uncredited)
as Arthur Hilton
as James Whittaker
as Man at Movie Preview (uncredited)
as Peter Leslie
as Colonel Carrington
as Richard Hawke KC
as Devilshoof
as Jack Brookfield
as Jaffery
as John Glayde
as Edward Thursfield