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Home/People/Jack Smight
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Born
Mar 9, 1925Died: Sep 1, 2003
Lived 78 years
Place of Birth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

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Movies
0
TV Shows
56
Directed
IMDb Profile

Jack Smight

Directing

Biography
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Smight (March 9, 1925 - September 1, 2003) 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 and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. 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, California. He was 78. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Smight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Making of Midway poster

The Making of Midway

as Self
2001
Fast Break poster

Fast Break

as Dibber
1979
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Tattooed Steiger

Cast
1969