Charles Smith (actor)

{{Short description|American character actor (1920–1988)}}

{{other people|Charles Smith|Charles Smith (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Charles Smith

| image = Charles Smith in Suddenly (1954) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Smith in Suddenly (1954)

| birth_name = Charles Begore Smith

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|09|13|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Flint, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1988|12|26|1920|09|13}}

| death_place = Burbank, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1939–1967

}}

Charles Begore Smith (September 13, 1920 – December 26, 1988) was an American character actor.{{cite news|title=Too Many Smiths Confuse Things|date=January 17, 1943|newspaper=Oakland Tribune|page=36|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/147924337}} He was born in Flint, Michigan.

He had notable roles in The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and The Major and the Minor (1942). (He also had a minor singing role in the film In the Good Old Summertime, the 1949 musical remake of "The Shop Around the Corner".) As a tall, gangly young man in his early twenties, he played high schooler Dizzy Stevens, the sidekick of Henry Aldrich, in nine Aldrich Family films between 1941 and 1944.{{cite news|title=New Henry Aldrich Film Is Laugh Hit|date=August 13, 1944|page=3-B|newspaper=Owensboro Messenger|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/378658867}} He also played Collins, the senior U.S. Senate page boy in the 1941 film Adventure in Washington. He later had recurring roles in several TV series.