Gavin Smith

Deceased Person

1954 – 2012

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Who was Gavin Smith?

Gavin Smith was an American film studio executive formerly in charge of distribution for 20th Century Fox. Prior to his 18 years in that position he played basketball at UCLA, where he was part of the 1975 team that won that year's NCAA championship, the last for legendary coach John Wooden. He later played at Hawaii, where he set the school's still-standing single-season scoring record of 23.4 points per game. He had a small role as a bartender in Cobb, the 1994 biopic of baseball legend Ty Cobb.

On the night of May 1, 2012, Smith left a friend's house in Oak Park, California, where he had been staying due to reported marital difficulties. It does not appear as if he had planned to be away for an extended period. When he failed to pick up one of his sons for school the next morning, his family reported him missing. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has been investigating. Two years later, with Smith still missing and no evidence of his presence anywhere past the night of his disappearance, he was retroactively declared legally dead.

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Born
Dec 10, 1954
Oak Park
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of California, Los Angeles
Died
May 1, 2012

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on July 23, 2013

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