Jack Smight
Film director
1925 – 2003
Who was Jack Smight?
Jack Smight was an American theatre and film director.
Smight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went to school with future actor Peter Graves. His film credits include The Traveling Executioner; Rabbit, Run; Loving Couples; Midway; Harper; Airport 1975; Damnation Alley and the Emmy Award-winning Eddie as well as many episodes of television series such as The Twilight Zone; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; and Columbo: Dead Weight. He also directed the 1960 Broadway play The 49th Cousin and composed the music for the film adaption of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Smight died from cancer in Los Angeles.
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- Born
- Mar 9, 1925
Minneapolis - Spouses
- Joyce Cunning
(1951 - 2002)
- Joyce Cunning
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Lived in
- Minnesota
- Died
- Sep 1, 2003
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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