D. A. Clarke-Smith was a British actor.

He was born on 2 August 1888 at Montrose

Montrose, Angus

Montrose is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated 38 miles north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers...

, Scotland. He was educated at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, studying law and voice culture, and while there joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society

Oxford University Dramatic Society

The Oxford University Dramatic Society is the principal funding body and provider of theatrical services to the many independent student productions put on by students in Oxford, England...

. His stage career was interrupted by the First World War. After the Armistice, he joined the Birmingham Repertory Company and later came to the London

London

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 stage.

He died on 12 March 1959, at Withyham

Withyham

Withyham is a village and large civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The village is situated 10 miles south west of Tunbridge Wells and 3.5 miles from Crowborough; the parish covers approximately .-Geography:Withyham parish lies on the edge of Weald, in the...

 in Sussex, England.

Partial filmography

• Atlantic
  Atlantic (1929 film)
  Atlantic is a British black-and-white film, directed and produced by Ewald André Dupont and starring Franklin Dyall and Madeleine Carroll. Three versions were made, one in the United Kingdom, one in Germany, and one in France...
  
  (1929)
• The Old Man (1931)
• Criminal at Large (1932)
• The Ghoul (1933)
• Warn London
  Warn London
  Warn London is a 1934 British thriller film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Edmund Gwenn, John Loder and Leonora Corbett. A detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang planning a bullion robbery. It was based on a novel by Denison Clift.-Cast:...
  
  (1934)
• High Finance
  High Finance (film)
  High Finance is a 1933 British drama film, directed by George King and starring Gibb McLaughlin and Ida Lupino, which was marketed as "the drama of a man overwhelmed by his own success". It is now classed as a lost film.-Plot:...
  
  (1933)
• Flat Number Three
  Flat Number Three
  Flat Number Three is a 1934 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott starring Mary Glynne, Betty Astell and Cecil Parker. A lawyer assists a widow who has killed her blackmailer.-Cast:* Mary Glynne as Mrs. Rivington* D.A. Clarke-Smith as Kettler...
  
  (1934)
• Designing Women
  Designing Women (film)
  Designing Women, also known as House of Cards, was a 1934 British film directed by Ivar Campbell and written by N.W. Baring-Pemberton.-Cast:*Stewart Rome - Travers*Valerie Taylor - Diana Dent*Tyrell Davis - Hildebrand Way...
  
  (1934)
• The Feathered Serpent
  The Feathered Serpent (1934 film)
  The Feathered Serpent is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Enid Stamp-Taylor, Tom Helmore and Moore Marriott. A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder. It is passed on the 1927 novel The Feathered Serpent by Edgar Wallace.-Cast:*...
  
  (1934)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
  The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
  The Man Who Knew Too Much is a British suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period....
  
  (1934)
• Wanted by Scotland Yard (1939)
• Frieda
  Frieda (film)
  Frieda is a 1947 British film, directed by Basil Dearden, screenplay by Angus MacPhail and Ronald Millar and was produced by Michael Balcon. Frieda is a German woman who helps an English airman, Robert , to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in April 1945...
  
  (1947)
• Beau Brummell
  Beau Brummell (film)
  Beau Brummell is a historical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, based on the play Beau Brummell by Clyde Fitch. The music score was by Richard Addinsell with Miklós Rózsa...
  
  (1954)
• The Baby and the Battleship
  The Baby and the Battleship
  The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell. It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes...
  
  (1956)

He also did some television work from 1937 onwards.

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