Sir Charles Aubrey Smith CBE (21 July 186320 December 1948), known to film-goers as
C. Aubrey Smith, was an England
Test cricketer who became a stage and film actor, acquiring a niche as the officer-and-gentleman type, as in the first sound version of
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). In Hollywood, he organised British actors into a cricket team, playing formal matches that much intrigued local spectators.