Jack Smight

from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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Biography

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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.

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Timeline

2025Aged 100

  • Poster for Airports

    Director

2005Aged 80

  • Poster for Miles Davis: The Cool Jazz Sound

    Director

2001Aged 76

  • Poster for The Making of Midway

    Self

1989Aged 64

  • Poster for The Favorite

    Director

1987Aged 62

  • Poster for Number One with a Bullet

    Director

1982Aged 57

  • Poster for Remembrance Of Love

    Director

1980Aged 55

  • Poster for Loving Couples

    Director

1979Aged 54

  • Poster for Fast Break

    Dibber

1978Aged 53

  • Poster for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    Director

1977Aged 52

  • Poster for Damnation Alley

    Director

1976Aged 51

  • Poster for Midway

    Director

1974Aged 49

1973Aged 48

1972Aged 47

  • Poster for The Screaming Woman

    Director

  • Poster for The Longest Night

    Director

1970Aged 45

  • Poster for Rabbit, Run

    Director

  • Poster for The Traveling Executioner

    Producer

1969Aged 44

  • Poster for Tattooed Steiger

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Strategy of Terror

    Director

  • Poster for The Illustrated Man

    Director

1968Aged 43

  • Poster for The Secret War of Harry Frigg

    Director

  • Poster for No Way to Treat a Lady

    Director

1966Aged 41

  • Poster for Harper

    Director

  • Poster for Kaleidoscope

    Director

1965Aged 40

  • Poster for The Third Day

    Producer

1964Aged 39

  • Poster for I'd Rather Be Rich

    Director

1963Aged 38

  • Poster for The Paragon

    Director

1959Aged 34

  • Poster for The Sound of Miles Davis

    Director

1957Aged 32

  • Poster for The Sound of Jazz

    Director

Year unknown