Not C. Aubrey Smith...


In the "Commentary" section for this film, one contributor claims the famous British character actor C. Aubrey Smith plays an uncredited bit at Euston Station as passengers board the train. Train starts to pull away, 2 passengers arrive late (Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray) and run to get aboard at last second. The two bump older man on platform, he complains, they apologize. To my eyes the bumped man does not appear to be C. A. Smith, after all: he is not tall enough. (C.A.Smith towered over all his fellow actors.) Moreover, by now surely some sharp-eyed IMDB contributor would have added him to the cast, if indeed the bit had been played by Smith... -- Prof Steven P. Hill, University of Illinois.
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I will certainly give it another look....thank you.

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Dear S. Hill, I would concur with you. I have just watched 'Terror By Night' on the 'Drama' channel via SKY TV. I can see the confusion though. If you watch it at normal speed, the chap Bruce and Mowbray bump into does bear some resemblance to the great Sir C. Aubrey Smith, even vocally. But if you pause the movie mid-scene it most definitely is not him. If you had seen this in the cinema, without the benefit of a pause, it would be an easy mistake to make.

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I thought the man who Watson bumps into does appear fairly tall. Taller than Watson anyway. IMDb do have C. Aubrey Smith as an uncredited player of the elderly gentleman in that scene. I'll check again next time I watch but I think the features do fit that actor from what I can recall from my last viewing of the film.

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