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name: "Keith C. Smith"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/keith-c-smith"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "5 January 1921"
died: "6 January 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
updated: "2026-09-16T15:54:30.527553+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."
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# Keith C. Smith

Cinematographer. Born 5 January 1921 in Los Angeles. Died 6 January 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 5 January 1921, Los Angeles
- **Died:** 6 January 1996
- **Works often with:** Al Francis, Donald R. Rode, Edward J. Lakso, Gerald Fried, Gerald Perry Finnerman, Herb Wallerstein

## Biography

Keith C. Smith (1921–1996) was an American cinematographer who worked on feature films and television series. He began his career as a cameraman in the US Army Signal Corps during the Second World War. He was the nephew of A.E. Smith, one of the founders of Vitagraph Studios.

Smith served as director of photography on 46 episodes of *Mission: Impossible* between 1968 and 1970. His other credits include an episode of *Star Trek* in 1968, as well as work on series such as *Wanted: Dead or Alive*, *Starsky & Hutch*, *Barbary Coast* and *Flying High*, and television films including *The Animals* (1971) and *Black Noon* (1971). He retired in 1983.

*Sources: imdb.com, memory-alpha.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), Fi1m 82, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)
- *Star Trek* (1966), Fi1m 83, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-1966.md)

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