Robert Cecil Smith was an American actor of the stage, television, and film. He began his career as a teenager, making his first appearance in the 1927 film Baby Brother

Baby Brother

-Cast:* Joe Cobb - Joe* Allen "Farina" Hoskins - Farina* Jackie Condon - Jackie* Clifton Young - Bonedust* Jay R. Smith - Jay* Scooter Lowry - Skooter* Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins - Horatio* Robert Smith - Tunney* Richard Smith - Coolidge...

. He went on to have an active career playing mid sized character roles in films during the 1930s and 1940s.

Smith was also active appearing in stage plays and musicals throughout the United States. He made his Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 debut in the 1934 play Lost Horizons. His other Broadway credits include You Never Know

You Never Know (musical)

You Never Know is a musical with a book by Rowland Leigh, adapted from the original European play By Candlelight, by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Farkas, with music by Cole Porter and Robert Katscher, lyrics by Cole Porter, additional lyrics by Leigh and Edwin Gilbert, directed by Leigh, and songs by...

(1938), One for the Money (1939), Two for the Show

Two for the Show (musical)

Two for the Show is a musical revue with sketches and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis. The production was conceived by John Murray Anderson.-Production:...

(1940), Gramercy Ghost (1951), The Girl in Pink Tights

The Girl in Pink Tights

The Girl in Pink Tights is a musical comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. The musical opened on Broadway on March 5, 1954 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre where it ran for a total of 115 performances until it closed on June...

(1954), and the role of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside in Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis. The book is a work of fiction inspired by the author's eccentric aunt, Marion Tanner, whose life and outlook in many...

opposite Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...

 in the title role.

Filmography

• On the Town
  On the Town (film)
  On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage...
  
  (1949)
• Criminal Court (1946)
• Motor Maniacs (1946)
• The Mayor of 44th Street
  The Mayor of 44th Street
  The Mayor of 44th Street is a 1942 film directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars George Murphy and Anne Shirley. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943.-Cast:*George Murphy as Joe Jonathan*Anne Shirley as Jersey Lee*William Gargan as Tommy Fallon...
  
  (1942)
• The Falcon Takes Over
  The Falcon Takes Over
  The Falcon Takes Over, also known as The Falcon Steps Out, is a 1942 black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis. The film was the third, following The Gay Falcon and A Date with the Falcon , to star George Sanders as the character Gay Lawrence, a gentleman detective known by the sobriquet...
  
  (1942)
• Framing Father (1942)
• Obliging Young Lady (1942)
• Call Out the Marines
  Call Out the Marines
  Call Out the Marines is a 1941 military comedy released by RKO in January 1942. It stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing the same characters with different names that they played in What Price Glory? and several sequels; however the original film trailer mentions What Price Glory? and The...
  
  (1942)
• Four Jacks and a Jill
  Four Jacks and a Jill
  Four Jacks and a Jill is a South African folk rock ensemble. They originally formed in 1964 without a "Jill" under a different name. Later they added lead singer Glenys Lynne and changed the group's name. In South Africa, they had a hit song, "Timothy". In 1968 they cracked the American charts with...
  
  (1942)
• The Gay Falcon
  The Gay Falcon
  The Gay Falcon is the first in a series of films about a suave detective nicknamed The Falcon. The 1941 B film was intended by RKO Radio Pictures to introduce a replacement for The Saint, after RKO decided that renewing the film rights to the latter character would be too expensive...
  
  (1941)
• Man-I-Cured (1941)
• Father Takes a Wife (1941)
• Parachute Battalion
  Parachute Battalion
  Parachute Battalion is a 1941 film starring Robert Preston and Nancy Kelly. The supporting cast includes Edmond O'Brien, Harry Carey, and Buddy Ebsen, and the movie was directed by Leslie Goodwins.-Production:...
  
  (1941)
• Hit the Saddle
  Hit the Saddle
  Hit the Saddle is a 1937 "Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie starring Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, and Rita Hayworth, before she became famous. The film was directed by Mack V. Wright.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• The Apache Raider (1928)
• Baby Brother
  Baby Brother
  -Cast:* Joe Cobb - Joe* Allen "Farina" Hoskins - Farina* Jackie Condon - Jackie* Clifton Young - Bonedust* Jay R. Smith - Jay* Scooter Lowry - Skooter* Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins - Horatio* Robert Smith - Tunney* Richard Smith - Coolidge...
  
  (1927)

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