He is buried in Forest Lawn cemetery. He was a co-founder, with J. Stuart Blackton, and treasurer of the Vitagraph Corporation of America. Before he entered the film business, he fought in the British army in the Boer War in South Africa and was with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Brother of David Smith. He had a reputation as a brusque, no-nonsense businessman, never letting sentiment or emotion get in the way of a... imdb
He is buried in Forest Lawn cemetery. He was a co-founder, with J. Stuart Blackton, and treasurer of the Vitagraph Corporation of America. Before he entered the film business, he fought in the British army in the Boer War in South Africa and was with Theo www.imdb.com/name/nm0807236/