---
name: "Charles Smith"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-smith"
fi1m_id: "charles-smith"
imdb_id: "nm0807654"
tmdb_id: 85958
wikidata_id: "Q20685578"
roles: []
born: "13 September 1920"
died: "26 December 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-02T22:14:07.491692+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Charles Smith

## Identity

Charles Smith

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-smith
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-smith
- **IMDb ID:** nm0807654
- **TMDB ID:** 85958
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20685578
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Smith_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20685578, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807654/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85958

Actor. Born 13 September 1920 in Flint, Michigan, USA. Died 26 December 1988.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 September 1920, Flint, Michigan, USA
- **Died:** 26 December 1988
- **Also known as:** Charles Begore Smith, Charles B. Smith
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 66 (1), 1940s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Smith_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20685578, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807654/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85958

## Biography

Charles Begore Smith (1920–1988) was an American character actor. Born in Flint, Michigan, he began appearing in films in the late 1930s and worked steadily through the 1960s.

He is best known for playing Rudy in *The Shop Around the Corner* (1940) and for portraying Dizzy Stevens, the sidekick to Henry Aldrich, in nine Paramount films between 1941 and 1944. Other credits include *The Major and the Minor* (1942) as Cadet Korner, *A Guy Named Joe* (1944) and an uncredited role in *In the Good Old Summertime* (1949). He was the only actor to appear in both an Andy Hardy film and all the Henry Aldrich features.

Smith later took recurring television roles and wrote episodes for series including *Target* (1958) and *Everglades!* (1961–1962). He died in Burbank, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Shop Around the Corner* (1940), Fi1m 88, as Rudy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-around-the-corner.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Babes in Arms* (1939), Fi1m 66, as Shy Youth (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/babes-in-arms.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My Dog, the Thief* (1969), as Hamburger Cook
- *Good Times* (1967), as Telegrapher
- *The Andy Griffith Show* (1960), series, as Counterman
- *Lock-Up* (1959), series, Writer
- *The Deputy* (1959), series, Writer
- *The Restless Gun* (1957), series, Writer
- *Johnny Tremain* (1957), as Caleb
- *Cheyenne* (1955), series, Writer
- *Suddenly* (1954), as Bebop
- *The French Line* (1954), as Reporter (uncredited)
- *Boss Lady* (1952), series, as Chester Allen
- *The Stooge* (1951), as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
- *Rhythm Inn* (1951), as Eddie Thompson
- *Two Weeks with Love* (1950), as Eddie Gavin
- *A Modern Marriage* (1950), as Jimmy
- *The Happy Years* (1950), as Student
- *Father of the Bride* (1950), as Usher (uncredited) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride.md)
- *In the Good Old Summertime* (1949), as Male Quartette Member (uncredited)
- *Adventure in Baltimore* (1949), as Fred Beehouse
- *Campus Honeymoon* (1948), as Benjie Briggs
- *Two Blondes and a Redhead* (1947), as Miles Bradbury
- *The Trouble with Women* (1947), as Ulysses S. Jones
- *Out of the Blue* (1947), as Elevator Operator
- *Wake Up and Dream* (1946), as Carl
- *Three Little Girls in Blue* (1946), as Mike Bailey
- *Out of This World* (1945), as Charlie Briggs (uncredited)
- *God Is My Co-Pilot* (1945), as Pvt. Motley
- *San Fernando Valley* (1944), as Oliver Griffith
- *Henry Aldrich's Little Secret* (1944), as Dizzy Stevens
- *Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid* (1944), as Dizzy
- *A Guy Named Joe* (1944), as Sanderson
- *Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout* (1944), as Basil "Dizzy" Stevens
- *Henry Aldrich Haunts a House* (1943), as Dizzy Stevens
- *Henry Aldrich Swings It* (1943), as Dizzy Stevens
- *Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour* (1943), as Dizzy Stevens
- *Salute for Three* (1943), Actor
- *Youth on Parade* (1942), as Willie Webster
- *The Major and the Minor* (1942), as Cadet Korner
- *Henry Aldrich, Editor* (1942), as Dizzy Stevens
- *Henry and Dizzy* (1942), as Basil A. "Dizzy" Stevens
- *You're Telling Me* (1942), as Bill · Mimograph Operator
- *Henry Aldrich for President* (1941), as Dizzy Stevens
- *Dive Bomber* (1941), as Bellboy (uncredited)
- *Down in San Diego* (1941), as Crawford Cortland
- *Adventure in Washington* (1941), as Collins
- *A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob* (1941), as Messenger
- *Second Chorus* (1941), as College Boy with Zinc Oxide (uncredited)
- *Love Thy Neighbor* (1940), as Pageboy
- *Behind the News* (1940), as John Grant
- *Hired Wife* (1940), as Leo - Office Boy
- *Private Affairs* (1940), as Walter (uncredited)
- *Tom Brown's School Days* (1940), as Diggs
- *The Shop Around the Corner* (1940), as Rudy — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-around-the-corner.md)
- *Babes in Arms* (1939), as Shy Youth (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/babes-in-arms.md)
- *Cafe Society* (1939), as Office Boy
- *Nancy Drew... Reporter* (1939), as Charles, Journalism Student (uncredited)
- *The Co-respondent* (1917), as Bellhop

## Gallery

- ![Charles Smith](https://film.one/media/person/3858613/gallery-6e959ea4d642.jpg) Charles Smith — Film screenshot (United Artists), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Charles_Smith_in_Suddenly_%281954%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Charles Smith](https://film.one/media/person/3858613/gallery-f9259c7e5939.jpg) Charles Smith — Image via TMDB

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