C aubrey smith biography

English cricketer and actor (–)

Sir Charles Aubrey Smith (21 July – 20 December ) 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 ().

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In Hollywood, he organised British actors into a cricket team, much intriguing local spectators.

Early life

Smith was born in London, England, to Charles John Smith (–), a medical doctor, and Sarah Ann (née Clode, –).^[1][2] His sister, Beryl Faber (died ), was married to Cosmo Hamilton.

Smith was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Cambridge.^[3][4] He settled in South Africa to prospect for gold in – While there he developed pneumonia and was wrongly pronounced dead by doctors.

He married Isabella Wood in

Cricket career

As a cricketer, Smith was primarily a right arm fast bowler, though he was also a useful right-hand lower-order b