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Pete Smith est un Acteur et Producteur Américain né le 4 septembre 1892 à New York (Etats-Unis)

Pete Smith

Pete Smith
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Nom de naissance Peter Schmidt
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 4 septembre 1892 à New York (Etats-Unis)
Mort 12 janvier 1979 (à 86 ans) à Santa Monica (Etats-Unis)

Pete Smith (September 4, 1892 – January 12, 1979) was an American publicist, short subject producer and narrator.

A native of New York City, Smith began working as a publicist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1920s. He later moved into film making. He is best known for his series of shorts, the Pete Smith Specialties, which were in production from the 1930s to the 1950s. Smith produced and narrated over 150 shorts which earned him two Best Live Action Short Film Academy Awards. In 1953, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for his short films.

Smith's later years were spent in a Santa Monica convalescent home due to ill health. In January 1979, Smith jumped to his death from the roof of the home.

Biographie

Smith married Marjorie Ganss in 1918. They had one son, Douglas, who later became a technician at RKO. Smith and Ganss remained married until her death in 1957. Smith's second marriage was to his secretary, Anne Dunston, whom he married in Las Vegas in October 1962.

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Filmographie de Pete Smith (14 films)

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Acteur

Seeing Hands, 11minutes
Réalisé par Gunther von Fritsch
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre
Acteurs Barbara Bedford, Russell Gleason, Robert Frazer, George McFarland, Pete Smith
Rôle Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Note66% 3.3173153.3173153.3173153.3173153.317315
Third Dimensional Murder, 8minutes
Réalisé par George Sidney
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Horreur, Policier
Acteurs Pete Smith
Rôle Narrateur
Note53% 2.673232.673232.673232.673232.67323
Our narrator, Pete Smith, gets a phone call asking for help at an old castle. Smith arrives and is attacked by a witch, a skeleton, an Indian warrior, an archer, and the Frankenstein monster (Ed Payson). The latter character was specifically modeled after Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein.
Quicker'n a Wink, 10minutes
Réalisé par George Sidney
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Documentaire
Thèmes Documentaire sur les technologies
Acteurs June Preisser, Pete Smith
Rôle Narrator (uncredited)
Note70% 3.524863.524863.524863.524863.52486
Penny Wisdom, 10minutes
Réalisé par David Miller
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Gertrude Short, Pete Smith, William Worthington
Rôle Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Note60% 3.0446153.0446153.0446153.0446153.044615
The opening of the film uses the music of "Pop Goes the Weasel", which already indicates that this "epicurian epic" will entail much comedic content.
Romance of Radium, 10minutes
Réalisé par Jacques Tourneur
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Documentaire, Historique
Acteurs André Cheron, Margaret Bert, Pete Smith, Emmett Vogan
Rôle Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Note61% 3.0935253.0935253.0935253.0935253.093525
Wanted -- A Master, 10minutes
Réalisé par Gunther von Fritsch, Arthur J. Ornitz
Origine Etats-Unis
Acteurs Pete Smith, Horace B. Carpenter, Dave O'Brien
Rôle Narrator / Voice of Dog (voice)
Note67% 3.3634753.3634753.3634753.3634753.363475
Audioscopiks, 8minutes
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Documentaire
Thèmes Documentaire sur le monde des affaires, Documentaire sur le cinéma
Acteurs Pete Smith
Rôle Narrateur (voix)
Note57% 2.8532652.8532652.8532652.8532652.853265
Audience members are given a lesson on how 3-Dimensional movies are made. After being taught about 3-D, patrons are then instructed to put on their 3-D glasses. They are then given a demonstration of 3-D with various objects moving towards the camera, including a ladder, a baseball being thrown and a woman on a swing. Smith narrates each short clip, most being 20 seconds or less.
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara, 19minutes
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie musicale, Musical
Thèmes La musique, Musique
Acteurs Warner Baxter, Chester Conklin, Mary Carlisle, Ida Lupino, Edmund Lowe, Gilbert Roland
Rôle Himself, Narrator (voice)
Note59% 2.95252.95252.95252.95252.9525
Une partie du "gratin" d'Hollywood se retrouve à l'occasion de la fête "espagnole" annuelle de Santa Barbara, en Californie.
Strikes and Spares, 9minutes
Réalisé par Felix E. Feist
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Documentaire
Thèmes Sport
Acteurs Pete Smith
Rôle Narrateur (voix)
Note62% 3.1378653.1378653.1378653.1378653.137865
Menu
Menu (1933)
, 10minutes
Réalisé par Nick Grinde
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Fantasy
Acteurs Una Merkel, Pete Smith, Luis Alberni, Franklin Pangborn
Rôle Narrateur (voix)
Note61% 3.0928953.0928953.0928953.0928953.092895
The scene opens with John Xavier Omsk drinking some bicarbonate of soda in the privacy of his office. Pete Smith, as the narrator, diagnoses John's stomach trouble as a "simple case of bad cooking." As the scene transitions to Mrs. Omsk in a disheveled kitchen, Smith's diagnosis is offered confirmation. Frustrated with her attempts to follow a cookbook on "How to Stuff a Duck", Mrs. Omsk throws down the book and beats the frozen duck, which surprisingly quacks each time it's struck.
Swing High
Swing High (1932)
, 10minutes
Réalisé par Jack Cummings
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Documentaire
Thèmes Cirque, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Acteurs Pete Smith
Rôle Narrateur (voix)
Note65% 3.2766153.2766153.2766153.2766153.276615

Producteur

A Wife's Life, 8minutes
Réalisé par Dave O'Brien
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Dorothy Short, Dave O'Brien
Rôle Producteur
Note60% 3.0059453.0059453.0059453.0059453.005945
Mrs. George T. Hardnose is an average mid-century housewife burdened by her aloof and patriarchal husband. She calls her husband to say she wants to go to a movie that night; he says, nothing doing, he's tired, he's worked hard, and what has she done all day. In a series of flashbacks, we see - starting with getting George out of bed and off to work, bathing an obstreperous three-year-old, dealing with stopped drains and a faulty defroster, doing dishes, cajoling a rich uncle, washing clothes, mopping floors, sweeping behind heavy furniture, cleaning the stove and a rug, and cooking dinner. When George asks her after dinner to let him have the paper, she cracks him over the head with a metal pipe wrapped in the paper.