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Charles Martin Smith

Charles Martin Smith
Charles Martin Smith
Born: Oct 30, 1953 in Van Nuys, California
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer,
Active: '70s, '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: American Graffiti, The Untouchables, Starman
First Major Screen Credit: American Graffiti (1973)
25 Videos for Charles Martin Smith
Drive [TV Series] (2007) Speechless (1994) Trick or Treat (1986)
Lucky You (2007) And the Band Played On (1993) Starman (1984)
Left Behind: World at War (2005) Fifty/Fifty (1993) More American Graffiti (1979)
Touching Wild Horses (2002) Boris and Natasha (1991) The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
The Beast (1996) The Hot Spot (1990) The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse (1977)
The Road Home (1996) The Untouchables (1987) No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Wedding Bell Blues (1996) The Untouchables (1987) American Graffiti (1973)
Streets of Laredo (1995) Strange Tales: Ray Bradbury Theatre (1986) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Roswell (1994)
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Biography:

Fuzzy-faced actor Charles Martin Smith took time off from his studies at Cal State to make his cinema debut in The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972). Specializing in nerdish, owl-eyed teenagers during the early stages of his career, Smith scored a hit as Terry The Toad Field in the two American Graffiti movies of the mid-1970s.

He was afforded a rare star part as real-life Canadian author Farley Mowat in Never Cry Wolf (1983), delivering what amounted to a one-man show as he braved the treacherous Arctic to study the so-called predatory behavior of wolves. Other Smith performances worth noting include ill-fated FBI accountant Oscar Wallace in The Untouchables (1987) and AIDS researcher Henry Jaffe in the made-for-TV And the Band Played On. Turning director with the sloppy but endearing horror musical Trick or Treat (1986), Charles Martin Smith has gone on to man the megaphone on the love-'em-or-hate-'em comedies Boris and Natasha (1992) and Fifty/Fifty (1993).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.