Lewis Smith (actor)

Lewis Smith
Smith in 1987
Born	Lewis C. Smith (1956-08-01) August 1, 1956 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Years active	1981 - present
Website	lewissmithacademy.com

Lewis Smith (born August 1, 1956) is an American actor. Best known as Bobby Fontana in The Heavenly Kid (1984).

Early life

Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Lookout Valley High School in 1974.

Career

Smith is best known for the role of Charles Main on the first and second part of North and South miniseries, He also played "Curly Bill" Brocious in the Kevin Costner film Wyatt Earp. Smith co-starred as Perfect Tommy in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and as trigger-happy National Guardsman "Earl Stuckey" in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort (1981).

He appeared in the early sequences of Love Child playing Amy Madigan's hitch-hiking boyfriend. Smith starred as Bobby Fontana in 1985's The Heavenly Kid. In 1987, he played the title role in the failed television pilot The Man Who Fell to Earth which was based on the David Bowie film from the 1970s. Smith landed a starring role in the short-lived Fox comedy television series Karen's Song. He also co-starred with Sharon Stone and Miguel Ferrer in Badlands 2005, an unsold TV pilot-movie directed by Scottish-born George Miller (not to be confused with the other George Miller who directed the Mad Max movies). He appeared as Jinglebells Cody, a slave fight trainer, in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django Unchained.

Lewis Smith founded The Actors Academy in Los Angeles, which prepares students to work in film and television. Courses taught at Lewis Smith's Actor's Academy cover topics such as camera techniques, sound & lighting, props & marks, auditioning for roles, etc.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Southern Comfort	Stuckey
1982	I Ought to Be in Pictures	Soldier
1982	Love Child	Jesse Chaney
1983	Lone Star	Ranger Ben McCollum	TV pilot episode
1983	Kentucky Woman	Spinner Limbaugh	TV film
1983	The Final Terror	Richard Boone
1984	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	Perfect Tommy
1985	The Heavenly Kid	Bobby Fontana
1985	North and South	Charles Main	TV miniseries
1986	North and South: Book II	Charles Main	TV miniseries
1987	Karen's Song	Steven Foreman	13 episodes
1987	The Man Who Fell to Earth	John Dory	TV film
1988	Badlands 2005	Marshal Garson MacBeth	TV film
1989	The Fulfillment of Mary Gray	Aaron	TV film
1989–90	Beauty and the Beast	Mark	4 episodes
1990	Booker	David Saxton	Episode: "Black Diamond Run"
1991	Diary of a Hitman	Zidzyck
1992	Murder, She Wrote	Louis Paloma	Episode: "The Mole"
1993	In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco	Robert Williams	TV film
1994	Wyatt Earp	Curly Bill Brocius
1994	Diagnosis: Murder	Michael Davis	Episode: "Lily"
1995	Texas Justice	Dennis Church	TV film
1995	Melrose Place	Tom Riley	2 episodes
1997	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Steven	2 episodes
1997	Toothless	Young Hot Guy	TV film
1999	Avalon: Beyond the Abyss	Commander Frank Stein	TV film
2001	Diagnosis: Murder	James Sloan	2-part episodes: "Sins of the Father"
2003	Seventh Veil
2008	Our First Christmas	Pastor Brown	TV film
2009	CSI: Miami	Robert Banyon	Episode: "And They're Offed"
2009	Opium	Levy	Short film
2012	Django Unchained	Jinglebells Cody
2013	The Violin	Michael Cupertino	Short film
2015	A Place in Hell	John McInnes
2016	Misirlou	Detective Marlowe
2016	My Buddy, the Actor	The Acting Coach	Short film

External links

• Lewis Smith's Actors Academy
• Lewis Smith at IMDb
• Biographical note