Clifford Smith (1894–1937) was an American
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...
who also occasionally
acted
Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, commonly known as ACTED, is a French humanitarian non-governmental organisation. It is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit organisatio. ACTED works in 37 countries responding to eme ...
and
produced
Producer or producers may refer to:
Occupations
*Producer (agriculture), a farm operator
*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
**Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
. He directed over eighty films between 1915 and 1937 as well as several
serials, doing much of his work for
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ ...
. Primarily a director of
westerns
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...
he worked with leading genre stars such as
William S. Hart.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Apostle of Vengeance'' (1916)
* ''
One Shot Ross'' (1917)
*''
The Boss of the Lazy Y'' (1917)
* ''
The Learning of Jim Benton'' (1917)
* ''
The Medicine Man'' (1917)
* ''
The Red-Haired Cupid'' (1918)
* ''
The Cyclone
The Cyclone, also the Coney Island Cyclone, is a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Designed by Vernon Keenan, it opened to the public on June 26, 1927. The roller coaster is on a plot of land at ...
'' (1920)
* ''
3 Gold Coins'' (1920)
* ''
Crossing Trails'' (1921)
*''
Daring Danger''
(1922)
* ''
Ridgeway of Montana
''Ridgeway of Montana'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck
Olive Hasbrouck (1907–1976) was an American film actress of the silent era.
Hasbrouck and her mother mov ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Back Trail'' (1924)
* ''
Singer Jim McKee'' (1924)
* ''
Fighting Fury'' (1924)
* ''
The Sign of the Cactus'' (1925)
* ''
A Roaring Adventure'' (1925)
* ''
Ridin' Thunder'' (1925)
* ''
Bustin' Thru
''Bustin' Thru'' (also written as ''Bustin' Through'') is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Jack Hoxie, Helen Lynch and William Bailey.Munden, p. 100.
Synopsis
Jack Savage refuses to sell his ranch t ...
'' (1925)
* ''
The White Outlaw'' (1925)
* ''
The Call of Courage'' (1925)
* ''
The Fighting Peacemaker'' (1926)
* ''
The Wild Horse Stampede
''The Wild Horse Stampede'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Jack Hoxie, Fay Wray and Marin Sais.Munden, p. 903
Cast
* Jack Hoxie as Jack Tanner
* Fay Wray as Jessie Hayden
* William Steele as ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Desert's Toll'' (1926)
* ''
The Man in the Saddle'' (1926)
* ''
The Terror
The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Phantom Bullet'' (1926)
* ''
Sky High Corral'' (1926)
* ''
The Demon'' (1926)
* ''
Rustlers' Ranch'' (1926)
* ''
A Six Shootin' Romance'' (1926)
* ''
The Ridin' Rascal
''The Ridin' Rascal'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith based upon the novel ''Mavericks'' by William MacLeod Raine. The film stars Art Acord, Olive Hasbrouck, and Buck Connors.
Plot
As described in a film ma ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Scrappin' Kid
''The Scrappin' Kid'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Art Acord, Velma Connor, and Jimmy Boudwin. '' (1926)
* ''
The Set-Up The Set-Up may refer to:
* The Set-Up (poem), a narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March; basis for the 1949 film (see below)
* "The Set Up" (song), a 2004 song by Obie Trice
* "The Set Up", a song by Favored Nations from ''The Music of Grand Theft A ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Arizona Sweepstakes
''The Arizona Sweepstakes'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, a cowboy who goes to a ...
'' (1926)
* ''
Open Range
In the Western United States and Canada, open range is rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership. Where there are "open range" laws, those wanting to keep animals off their property must erect a fence to keep animals out; th ...
'' (1927)
* ''
Loco Luck'' (1927)
* ''
The Valley of Hell'' (1927)
* ''
The Three Outcasts'' (1929)
* ''
The Texan'' (1932)
* ''
Five Bad Men'' (1935)
* ''
Wild West Days'' (1937, serial)
* ''
Radio Patrol'' (1937, serial)
* ''
Secret Agent X-9
''Secret Agent X-9'' is a comic strip created by writer Dashiell Hammett ('' The Maltese Falcon'') and artist Alex Raymond (''Flash Gordon''). Syndicated by King Features, it ran from January 22, 1934 until February 10, 1996.
Premise and publ ...
'' (1937, serial)
* ''
Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began on January 7, 1934, as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle J ...
'' (1937, serial)
References
Bibliography
* Henryk Hoffmann. ''Western Movie References in American Literature''. McFarland, 2012.
External links
*
1894 births
1937 deaths
American film directors
People from Richmond, Indiana
{{US-film-director-1890s-stub