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Pete Smith
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American publicist and short subject producer and narrator (1892-1979)
Film & TV
New York City, New York, USA
Born Peter Schmidt in New York City, Pete Smith got a job after graduating business college with The Player magazine and later with Billboard magazine. That led to his being hired as a publicist for Famous Players-Lasky and Artcraft Pictures, and he was later appointed publicity director at Paramount Pictures. Director Marshall Neilan hired Smith to be the publicist for his own production…
Known for
- Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2002
- The Fall Guy — Narrator (voice)1955
- Just What I Needed — Narrator1955
- The Man Around the House — Narrator (voice)1955
- Animals in Action — Narrator (voice)1955
- MGM Parade1955
- MGM Parade — Self1955
- Film Antics — Narrator1954
- Out for Fun — Narrator1954
- Ain't It Aggravatin' — Narrator (voice)1954
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Santa Monica
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Pete Smith 1918 Publicity Photo.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1892-09-04
- date of death
- 1979-01-12
- manner of death
- Suicide
- start of work period
- 1931-00-00
- cause of death
- suicide by jumping from height
- different from
- Pete Smith
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Pete Smith (producer)
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