Martin Smith

Who was Martin Smith?

Martin Smith was a British actor, singer, and composer who starred in many shows in London's West End. He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 37, leaving a legacy of recorded music.

He made various appearances on television and in the film Yanks, but Martin Smith was best known as Micky Doyle in the long-running British soap Crossroads. His acting debut was made in Scotland in BBC's Play For Today. Following this, he made many various appearances in many television shows such as Fox, Very Like a Whale, One-Upmanship, Question of Guilt, Play for Today, Henry V, Follow the Star, Jackanory, Playhouse, Secret Army, House on the Hill, and Kelly Monteith Show. He later moved south and began landing leading roles in West End musicals, including shows like Billy, Something's Afoot, Let The Good Stones Roll, The Great American Backstage Musical and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. He also had Regional Theatre experience, playing for two seasons as the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester where he had roles in the critically acclaimed Sophocles Trilogy, and he played the role of Stephen Foster in a show about the composer's life entitled Beautiful Dreamer. Another one of his early appearances in the West End in musical theatre included Che in Evita. In 1984, he starred in the original London cast of the show Peg where he played the role of Jerry Adair. He also appeared in a production of William Finn's March of the Falsettos at the Library Theatre in Manchester in 1987, that same year he appeared in No Way To Treat A Lady at the Thorndike Theatre in Leatherhead. And starting in 1987-88, he played Marius and covered for Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. In 1988 he starred in a new London production of Noël Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet. He later played the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera and Stine in City of Angels in London, as well as creating original roles such as 'Adam' in Children of Eden.