C. Aubrey Smith
Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE (21 July 1863 – 20 December 1948) was an English Test cricketer who became a stage and film actor, acquiring a niche as the officer-and-gentleman type, as in the first sound version of The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). In Hollywood, he organised British actors into a cricket team, much intriguing local spectators.
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| Full name at birth | Charles Aubrey Smith
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| Date of birth | 21 July 1863
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| Place of birth | London, England, UK
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| Date of death | 20 December 1948
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| Age | 85 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Cause of death | Pneumonia
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| Resting place | St Leonard Churchyard, Hove, Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England
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| Occupation | Actor, England Cricketer
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| Height | 6' 4" (193 cm)
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| Distinctive feature | Bushy Eyebrows, Beady Eyes, Handlebar Moustache and Height of 6'4
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| Pets | Great Dane, Bodor
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| High school | Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK
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| University | St John's College, Cambridge, England, UK
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- Remains: Cremated, St. Lawrence Church, Hove, East Sussex, England
- In 2005 the actress Beverly D'Angelo purchased one of the houses that Sir Aubrey had rented when he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. Located at 1819 Coldwater Canyon Drive, she paid $2,350,000 for the house.
- In 1994 a set of 25 trading cards, celebrating some of Sussex Cricket Club's greatest "Test" players, was produced in the UK by County Print Services. Sir C. Aubrey Smith was one of the players chosen to be pictured on a card. Each player chosen was drawn by Michael Tarr as they would have appeared when they were playing for the club.
- Aubrey's friend, Sir Home Gordon, noted in his book 'Sussex County Cricket' that, "When last here (in England) in 1947, on my invitation, he (C. Aubrey Smith) came to James Langridge's benefit at Hove and had to have police protection from being mobbed."
- David Rayvern Allen notes in his biography 'Sir Aubrey': "Once, before a match in San Francisco, he (C. Aubrey Smith) was found in an excavated hole in the road holding a shovel and demonstrating to a group of Negro workmen how a cricket bat should be held, and in fact it was Aubrey who introduced the first black player into the Hollywood side."
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