C. Aubrey Smith | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 100% And Then There Were None (1945)

Lowest Rated: 36% The Garden of Allah (1936)

Birthday: Jul 21, 1863

Birthplace: London, England, UK

Tall, distinguished stage actor with memorable bushy eyebrows and thick moustache who entered films in 1915 but is best known for his numerous character roles for Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s; often cast as a crusty, blustery upper-class Brit.

Highest rated movies

100% And Then There Were None

100% The Prisoner of Zenda

100% The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

100% The Crusades

100% The House of Rothschild

100% Tarzan, the Ape Man

100% Love Me Tonight

100% Trader Horn

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C. Aubrey Smith

FLESH AND FANTASY, C. Aubrey Smith, 1943

LITTLE WOMEN, C. Aubrey Smith, Margaret O'Brien, 1949

THE CRUSADES, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Wilcoxon, 1935.

THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, C. Aubrey Smith, 1936

THE HURRICANE, C. Aubrey Smith, 1937

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY, C. Aubrey Smith, Freddie Bartholomew, 1936

REBECCA, C. Aubrey Smith, 1940

THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CRY, C. Aubrey Smith, Forrester Harvey, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Sinclair, 1937

ROMEO AND JULIET, C. Aubrey Smith, Norma Shearer, Edna Mae Oliver, 1936, honoring thy father

BOMBSHELL, from left: Mary Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, 1933

TARZAN THE APE MAN, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, 1932

THE UNDER-PUP, from left: C. Aubrey Smith, Gloria Jean, 1939

THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CRY, Ronald Sinclair, C. Aubrey Smith, 1937

QUEEN CHRISTINA, Greta Garbo, C. Aubrey Smith, director Rouben Mamoulian, cinematographer William Daniels on set, 1933

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Filmography

Movies

			Credit
86%	67%	Unconquered	Lord Chief Justice (Character)	-	1947
No Score Yet	50%	An Ideal Husband	Earl of Caversham (Character)	-	1947
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	High Conquest	Col. Hugh Bunning (Character)	-	1947
94%	79%	Cluny Brown	Col. Charles Duff Graham (Character)	-	1946
100%	77%	And Then There Were None	Gen. Sir John Mandrake (Character)	-	1945
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Forever Yours	Grandfather (Character)	-	1945
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Scotland Yard Investigator	Sir James Collison (Character)	-	1945
80%	57%	The White Cliffs of Dover	Colonel Walter Forsythe (Character)	-	1944
No Score Yet	59%	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Oxford Chancellor (Character)	-	1944
No Score Yet	33%	Secrets of Scotland Yard	Sir Christopher Pelt (Character)	-	1944
88%	68%	Madame Curie	Lord Kelvin (Character)	-	1943
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Two Tickets to London	Admiralty Detective Fairchild (Character)	-	1943
No Score Yet	50%	Forever and a Day	Adm. Eustace Trimble (Character)	-	1943
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Maisie Was a Lady	Al Walpole (Character)	-	1941
60%	61%	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Bishop Manners (Character)	-	1941
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Free and Easy	Duke Culver (Character)	-	1941
83%	88%	Waterloo Bridge	The Duke (Character)	-	1940
No Score Yet	49%	Beyond Tomorrow	Allan Chadwick (Character)	-	1940
98%	92%	Rebecca	Colonel Julyan (Character)	-	1940
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	A Bill of Divorcement	Dr. Alliot (Character)	-	1940
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	City of Chance	The Judge (Character)	-	1940
No Score Yet	63%	Five Came Back	Professor Henry Spengler (Character)	-	1939
91%	85%	The Four Feathers	General Burroughs (Character)	-	1939
No Score Yet	70%	East Side of Heaven	Cyrus Barrett Sr. (Character)	-	1939
86%	85%	Another Thin Man	Colonel Burr MacFay (Character)	-	1939
No Score Yet	0%	Balalaika	Gen. Karagin (Character)	-	1939
No Score Yet	28%	Eternally Yours	Gramps (Character)	-	1939
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Sun Never Sets	Sir John Randolph (Character)	-	1939
43%	50%	Four Men and a Prayer	Col. Loring Leigh (Character)	-	1938
No Score Yet	43%	Kidnapped	Duke of Argyle (Character)	-	1938
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	60 Glorious Years	Duke of Wellington (Character)	-	1938
No Score Yet	44%	Thoroughbreds Don't Cry	Sir Peter Calverton (Character)	-	1937
No Score Yet	68%	The Hurricane	Father Paul (Character)	-	1937
No Score Yet	73%	Wee Willie Winkie	Colonel Williams (Character)	-	1937
100%	80%	The Prisoner of Zenda	Colonel Zapt (Character)	-	1937
78%	54%	Romeo and Juliet	Lord Capulet (Character)	-	1936
No Score Yet	55%	Lloyd's of London	Old 'Q' (Character)	-	1936
88%	75%	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Earl of Dorincourt (Character)	-	1936
36%	40%	The Garden of Allah	Father J. Roubier (Character)	-	1936
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Right to Live	Major Licondra (Character)	-	1935
80%	74%	China Seas	Sir Guy (Character)	-	1935
No Score Yet	71%	The Gilded Lily	Lloyd Granton (Character)	-	1935
100%	72%	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Maj. Hamilton (Character)	-	1935
No Score Yet	35%	Transatlantic Tunnel	Lloyd (Character)	-	1935
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Jalna	Uncle Nicholas Whiteoaks (Character)	-	1935
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Florentine Dagger	Dr. Lytton (Character)	-	1935
100%	43%	The Crusades	The Hermit (Character)	-	1935
No Score Yet	54%	Gambling Lady	Peter Madison (Character)	-	1934
83%	67%	Cleopatra	Enobarbus (Character)	-	1934
86%	85%	The Scarlet Empress	Prince August (Character)	-	1934
80%	30%	We Live Again	Prince Kortchagin (Character)	-	1934
100%	53%	The House of Rothschild	Duke of Wellington (Character)	-	1934
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	One More River	Gen. Charwell (Character)	-	1934
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Firebird	Police Inspector Miller (Character)	-	1934
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Curtain at Eight	Jim Hanvey (Character)	-	1933
64%	45%	Morning Glory	Robert Harley "Bob" Hedges (Character)	-	1933
81%	85%	Queen Christina	Aage (Character)	-	1933
90%	76%	Bombshell	Mr. Wendell Middleton (Character)	-	1933
No Score Yet	43%	Secrets	Mr. William Marlowe (Character)	-	1933
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Adorable	The Prime Minister (Character)	-	1933
No Score Yet	50%	The Barbarian	Cecil Harwood (Character)	-	1933
No Score Yet	44%	No More Orchids	Jerome Cedric (Character)	-	1932
100%	68%	Tarzan, the Ape Man	James Parker (Character)	-	1932
90%	90%	Trouble in Paradise	Adolph J. Giron (Character)	-	1932
100%	83%	Love Me Tonight	Duke d'Artelines (Character)	-	1932
No Score Yet	0%	Polly of the Circus	Reverend James Northcott (Character)	-	1932
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	But the Flesh Is Weak	Florian Clement (Character)	-	1932
100%	33%	Trader Horn	St. Clair (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Just a Gigolo	Lord George Hampton (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	61%	Guilty Hands	Reverend Hastings (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	33%	The Phantom of Paris	Bourrelier (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Man in Possession	Mr. Dabney (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Daybreak	General von Hertz (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Son of India	Dr. Wallace (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Never the Twain Shall Meet	Mr. Pritchard (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Surrender	Count Reichendorf (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Bachelor Father	Sir Basil Algernon `'Chief'` Winterton (Character)	-	1931
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Bohemian Girl	Devilshoof (Character)	-	1922