Charles Martin Smith

Highest Rated: 100% And the Band Played On (1993)

Lowest Rated: 0% Touching Wild Horses (2002)

Birthday: Oct 30, 1953

Birthplace: Van Nuys, California, USA

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).

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
79%	A Gift from Bob	Director	—	2021
59%	A Dog's Way Home	Director	—	2019
66%	Dolphin Tale 2	George Hatton Director Screenwriter	—	2014
82%	Dolphin Tale	Director Screenwriter	$65.1M	2011
53%	Stone of Destiny	Screenwriter Executive Producer Director	—	2008
25%	Jack and Jill vs. the World	Carlin	—	2008
29%	Lucky You	Roy Durucher	$5.8M	2007
No Score Yet	Still Small Voices	Burton Hayes	—	2007
No Score Yet	Left Behind: World at War	Vice President John Mallory	—	2005
No Score Yet	Frederick Forsyth's Icon	Director	—	2005
No Score Yet	The Last Casino	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	The Clinic	Executive Producer Screenwriter	—	2004
86%	The Snow Walker	Screenwriter Director	—	2003
0%	Touching Wild Horses	Charles Thurston	—	2002
No Score Yet	Dead Heat (I Fought the Law)	Executive Producer Marty	—	2002
No Score Yet	Roughing It	Director Pitt	—	2002
No Score Yet	Here's to Life	Executive Producer Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	P.T. Barnum	Beach	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Apartment Complex	Gary Glumley	—	1999
45%	Deep Impact	Comet Expert	—	1998
45%	Air Bud	Director	—	1997
40%	Wedding Bell Blues	Oliver	—	1996
No Score Yet	The Beast	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	Peter Benchley's The Beast	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	American Job	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	Brothers' Destiny	Merriman	—	1996
No Score Yet	Streets of Laredo	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	Perfect Alibi	Franklin Dupard	—	1995
11%	Speechless	Kratz	—	1994
No Score Yet	Roswell	Sheriff George Wilcox	—	1994
22%	I Love Trouble	Rick Medwick	—	1994
No Score Yet	Guns of the Civil War	Host	—	1994
No Score Yet	Guns of the Civil War	Actor	—	1993
100%	And the Band Played On	Dr. Harold Jaffe	—	1993
20%	Fifty/Fifty (50-50)	Director Martin	—	1993
No Score Yet	Boris and Natasha	Director Hotel Clerk	—	1992
86%	Deep Cover	Carver	—	1992
No Score Yet	Female Misbehavior	Director	—	1992
73%	The Hot Spot	Lon Golick	—	1990
83%	The Untouchables	Oscar Wallace	—	1987
75%	Trick or Treat	Director Mr. Wimbley	—	1986
85%	Starman	Mark Shermin	—	1984
100%	Never Cry Wolf	Tyler/Farley Mowat	—	1983
40%	Herbie Goes Bananas	D.J.	—	1980
20%	More American Graffiti	Terry	$8.2M	1979
100%	The Buddy Holly Story	Ray Bob Simmons	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Hazing	Barney	—	1977
No Score Yet	No Deposit, No Return	Longnecker	—	1976
No Score Yet	Law of the Land	Actor	—	1976
60%	Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers)	Alan	—	1975
No Score Yet	The Spikes Gang	Todd	—	1974
96%	American Graffiti	Terry	—	1973
86%	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Bowdre	—	1973
No Score Yet	The Culpepper Cattle Co.	Tim Slater	—	1972
No Score Yet	Fuzz	Baby	—	1972
No Score Yet	Go Ask Alice	Actor	—	1972

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Motive 2013-2016	Rick Wyatt Director	2016 2013
65%	Drive 2007	Mr. Bright	2007
78%	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999	Sheriff Bartley	2006
No Score Yet	The Triangle 2005	le capitaine Jay	2005
46%	Stephen King's 'Kingdom Hospital' 2004	Earl Swinton	2004
61%	Ally McBeal 1997-2002	Mayor Horn	2001
No Score Yet	Family Law 1999-2002	Alex Chilton	2001 2000 1999
No Score Yet	The Outer Limits 1995-2002	Actor	1998 1995
83%	Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997-2003	Director	1997
70%	Space: Above and Beyond 1995-1996	Director	1996 1995
74%	The X-Files 1993-2018	Dr. Osborne	1995
No Score Yet	Northern Exposure 1990-1995	Roger Brewster	1994
82%	Picket Fences 1992-1996	Lyman Pike	1993
82%	Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996	Actor	1993
No Score Yet	The Untouchables 1993-1994	Prosecutor	1993
No Score Yet	The Twilight Zone 1985-1989	Actor	1985
No Score Yet	The Streets of San Francisco 1972-1977	Russ	1974 1973
78%	The Brady Bunch 1969-1974	Ronnie	1971
No Score Yet	Intelligence 2007	Director

Quotes from Charles Martin Smith's Characters

Oscar Wallace:	This man could finger Al Capone this man could put Capone behind bars
Oscar Wallace:	This man could finger Al Capone. This man could put Capone behind bars.

Dolly Harshaw:	There are only two things to do around here, You got a TV?
Lon Golick:	No.
Dolly Harshaw:	Now you're down to one. Good luck!

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