C. Aubrey Smith

Born: 1863-07-19

C. Aubrey Smith (Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE) was an English born stage and screen actor, prominent in Hollywood films starting from the beginning of the sound era.


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Rebecca

as Colonel Julyan
Released: 1940-03-23

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in...

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Little Women

as Mr. Laurence
Released: 1949-03-10

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass...

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Tarzan the Ape Man

as James Parker
Released: 1932-04-02

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial...

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And Then There Were None

as John Mandrake
Released: 1945-10-31

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as The Bishop
Released: 1941-08-12

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil...

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Trouble in Paradise

as Adolph J. Giron
Released: 1932-10-30

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume...

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The White Cliffs of Dover

as Walter Forsythe
Released: 1944-05-11

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball,...

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Waterloo Bridge

as The Duke
Released: 1940-05-17

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man...

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Cluny Brown

as Charles "Duff" Graham
Released: 1946-06-02

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English...

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The Four Feathers

as General Burroughs
Released: 1939-04-20

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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Cleopatra

as Enobarbus
Released: 1934-10-05

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

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The Scarlet Empress

as Prince August
Released: 1934-05-09

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine...

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Unconquered

as Lord Chief Justice
Released: 1947-10-10

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to...

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Love Me Tonight

as Duke d'Artelines
Released: 1932-08-18

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess...

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Romeo and Juliet

as Lord Capulet
Released: 1936-09-03

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

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Queen Christina

as Aage
Released: 1933-12-26

The popular monarch, Queen Christina of Sweden, must choose between love and loyalty to her...

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Terror by Night

as Elderly gentleman on train station (uncredited)
Released: 1946-02-01

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of...

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Another Thin Man

as Burr MacFay
Released: 1939-11-17

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Earl of Dorincourt
Released: 1936-03-06

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the...

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The Garden of Allah

as Father J. Roubier
Released: 1936-10-14

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

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The Prisoner of Zenda

as Colonel Zapt
Released: 1937-09-03

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue...

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Maisie Was a Lady

as Al Walpole
Released: 1941-01-10

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who...

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Madame Curie

as Lord Kelvin
Released: 1943-12-16

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women...

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Bombshell

as Mr. Middleton
Released: 1933-10-13

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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Show People

as Extra at Movie Preview (uncredited)
Released: 1928-11-20

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great...

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Morning Glory

as Bob Hedges
Released: 1933-08-18

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York...

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The House of Rothschild

as Duke of Wellington
Released: 1934-04-07

The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and...

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Forever and a Day

as Eustace Trimble
Released: 1943-01-21

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the...

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Clive of India

as Prime Minister
Released: 1935-01-25

Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an...

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But the Flesh Is Weak

as Florian Clement
Released: 1932-04-09

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

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The Hurricane

as Father Paul
Released: 1937-11-09

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending...

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Five Came Back

as Henry Spengler
Released: 1939-06-23

Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when...

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Flesh and Fantasy

as Dean of Norwalk (segment 2)
Released: 1943-10-29

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in...

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Reginald Neilsen
Released: 1934-08-15

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in...

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China Seas

as Sir Guy Wilmerding
Released: 1935-08-09

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret...

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Passion Flower

as Man at Ferry Boat Pier (uncredited)
Released: 1930-12-06

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born...

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

as Major Hamilton
Released: 1935-01-11

In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom...

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The Crusades

as The Hermit
Released: 1935-08-21

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

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Beyond Tomorrow

as Allan 'Chad' Chadwick
Released: 1940-05-10

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help...

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Caravan

as Baron von Tokay
Released: 1934-12-30

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine...

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Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-06

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...

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The Barbarian

as Cecil Harwood
Released: 1933-05-12

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

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Luxury Liner

as Edward Thorndike
Released: 1948-11-09

Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged...

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Eternally Yours

as Bishop Peabody
Released: 1939-10-07

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say...

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Son of India

as Dr. Wallace
Released: 1931-08-01

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

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Guilty Hands

as Reverend Hastings
Released: 1931-08-22

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé...

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Victoria the Great

as (uncredited)
Released: 1937-09-01

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with...

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The Phantom of Paris

as Bourrelier
Released: 1931-09-12

Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is...

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Trader Horn

as St. Clair (uncredited)
Released: 1931-02-03

While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith...

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One More River

as General Charwell
Released: 1934-08-06

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

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Just a Gigolo

as George Hampton
Released: 1931-06-06

A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a...

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The Right to Live

as Major Liconda
Released: 1935-01-26

A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.

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Kidnapped

as Duke of Argyle
Released: 1938-05-27

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century...

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Never the Twain Shall Meet

as Mr. Pritchard
Released: 1931-05-16

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred...

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The Firebird

as Police Inspector Miller
Released: 1934-11-03

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in...

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Curtain at Eight

as Detective Jim Hanley
Released: 1933-10-01

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife?...

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Surrender

as Count Reichendorf
Released: 1931-12-06

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the...

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Sensations of 1945

as Dan Lindsay
Released: 1944-06-30

As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses...

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Adorable

as Prime Minister Von Heynitz
Released: 1933-05-18

Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the...

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Such Is the Law

as James Whittaker
Released: 1930-11-14

A film directed by Sinclair Hill.

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Scotland Yard Investigator

as James Collison
Released: 1945-09-30

A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.

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No More Orchids

as Jerome Cedric
Released: 1932-11-25

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince...

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Lloyd's of London

as Old Q
Released: 1936-11-25

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very...

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The Gilded Lily

as Lloyd Granton, Duke of Loamshire
Released: 1935-01-25

Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her...

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A Little Bit of Heaven

as Grandpa
Released: 1940-10-10

A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a...

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Secrets

as William Marlowe
Released: 1933-03-16

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with...

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Wee Willie Winkie

as Colonel Williams
Released: 1937-07-30

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army...

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The Tunnel

as Lloyd
Released: 1935-10-27

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

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We Live Again

as Prince Kortchagin
Released: 1934-11-01

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial,...

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Things You Never See on the Screen

as Self
Released: 1935-12-01

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

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Luxury Liner

as Edward Thorndyke
Released: 1933-02-03

This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a...

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The Man in Possession

as Mr. Dabney
Released: 1931-07-04

A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office...

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Hollywood Extra Girl

as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Released: 1935-08-22

A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.

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Daybreak

as General Von Hertz
Released: 1931-05-02

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

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Free and Easy

as The Duke
Released: 1941-02-28

This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian...

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Secrets of Scotland Yard

as Sir Christopher Pelt
Released: 1944-07-26

Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E....

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Gambling Lady

as Peter Madison
Released: 1934-03-08

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike...

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Sixty Glorious Years

as Duke of Wellington
Released: 1938-11-18

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

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Four Men and a Prayer

as Loring Leigh
Released: 1938-04-29

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

as Oxford Chancellor
Released: 1944-07-20

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

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City of Chance

as The Judge
Released: 1940-01-13

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler...

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The Bachelor Father

as Basil "Chief" Winterton
Released: 1931-01-10

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit...

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An Ideal Husband

as Earl of Caversham
Released: 1947-11-14

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has...

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The Monkey's Paw

as Sergeant Major Morris
Released: 1933-01-13

A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a...

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Forever Yours

as Grandfather
Released: 1945-01-26

A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to...

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Jalna

as Nicholas Whiteoaks
Released: 1935-08-09

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.

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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

as Peter Calverton
Released: 1937-11-25

Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the...

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Two Tickets to London

as Admiralty Detective Fairchild
Released: 1943-06-14

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to...

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The Witching Hour

as Jack Brookfield
Released: 1916-12-10

Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through...

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They Just Had to Get Married

as Aubrey Hampton
Released: 1933-01-05

Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they...

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Balalaika

as General Karagin
Released: 1939-12-15

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary...

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The Florentine Dagger

as Gerard Lytton
Released: 1935-03-30

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

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The Unwanted

as Colonel Carrington
Released: 1924-04-22

A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.

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Rendezvous with Annie

as Archibald Clyde
Released: 1946-07-22

A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip...

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Polly of the Circus

as James Northcott
Released: 1932-02-27

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a...

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The Sun Never Sets

as John Randolph
Released: 1939-05-31

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes...

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The Under-Pup

as Grandpa
Released: 1939-08-31

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from...

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A Bill of Divorcement

as Dr. Alliot
Released: 1940-05-31

Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

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High Conquest

as Col. Hugh Bunning
Released: 1947-06-21

Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.

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Birds of Prey

as Arthur Hilton
Released: 1930-11-18

At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject...

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East Side of Heaven

as Cyrus Barrett Sr.
Released: 1939-04-07

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the...

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Flames of Passion

as Richard Hawke KC
Released: 1922-11-01

Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is...

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Jaffery

as Jaffery
Released: 1916-07-15

Jaffery Chayne is the spectacular one of four chums, the others being Hilary Freeth, a literary...

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The Bohemian Girl

as Devilshoof
Released: 1922-07-27

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

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Contraband Love

as Paul Machin, JP
Released: 1931-04-01

'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Rejected Woman

as Peter Leslie
Released: 1924-05-04

Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are...

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