Sir Charles Aubrey Smith 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.
Smith in about 1940
Smith in about 1895
Smith in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Trailer for Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 American black-and-white adventure film based on Anthony Hope's 1894 novel of the same name and the 1896 play. A lookalike has to step in when his royal distant relative is kidnapped to prevent his coronation. This version is widely considered the best of the many film adaptations of the novel and play.
Theatrical release poster
Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda