Sid Smith
Sidney Smith (February 28, 1892 – July 4, 1928), known on-screen as Sid Smith, was an American actor and director who appeared in short comedy films. Smith entered the motion picture industry in 1911, and eventually performed in 187 releases- most of them short silent film comedies, directing six shorts in total. Smith had his own starring series, but also worked in support of such comics as Monty Banks at Warner Bros.
Sid Smith
Hall Room Boys Photoplays / C.B.C. Film Sales Corp. · Exhibitors Herald (Apr. - Jun. 1920) on the Internet Archive · Public domain
- Name
- Sid Smith
- Birth Name
- Sidney Smith
- Born
- 28 February 1892
- Birthplace
- Faribault, Minnesota, U.S.
- Died
- 4 July 1928
- Place of death
- Hollywood, California
- Occupation
- Comedian
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Sidney Smith (February 28, 1892 – July 4, 1928), known on-screen as Sid Smith, was an American actor and director who appeared in short comedy films. Smith entered the motion picture industry in 1911, and eventually performed in 187 releases- most of them short silent film comedies, directing six shorts in total. Smith had his own starring series, but also worked in support of such comics as Monty Banks at Warner Bros.
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And Billy Bevan at the Mack Sennett studio. Perhaps because of the Prohibition laws then in effect, one of the few trade papers covering Smith's passing gave the cause of death as “heart trouble.” • Illustration — Charles Dorety and Sid Smith in an unidentified 1919 comedy short film
Still from the American comedy short film Better Late Than Never (1922) with Sidney Smith, credited as Sid Smith playing Percy Hallroom as a shoe store clerk, and an unidentified actress, on page 80 of the May 13, 1922 Exhibitors Herald.
Hall Room Boys Photoplays / Federated Film Exchanges of America · Exhibitors Herald (Apr. - Jun. 1922) on the Internet Archive
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Unknown photographer dated 1924 on back · Publicity photo Private collection
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• Name — Sid Smith • Birth Name — Sidney Smith • Born — 28 February 1892 • Birthplace — Faribault, Minnesota, U.S. • Died — 4 July 1928 • Place of death — Hollywood, California • Burial Place — Hollywood Forever Cemetery • Occupation — Comedian • Years Active — 1911–1928
Filmography
Filmography
• The Awful Adventures of an Aviator (1915), partially survives • The Ne'er-Do-Well (1916) • Kismet (1920) • Tell Us, Ouija! (1920) • We'll Get You Yet (1921), reissued by Pathescope in the UK in the 1930s as James & the Brown Hand • Better Late Than Never (1922) • The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923) • Sweet Marie (1925) • The Heart Breaker (1925) • Dugan of the Dugouts (1928) • One Spooky Night (1928) • Heave-Ho (1928), with Teddy Reavis. Extant.
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1928
Sid Smith died at Los Angeles.
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