Art Smith (March 23, 1899-February 24, 1973) was a movie actor known for playing supporting roles in the 1940s. The one-time blacklisted actor appeared in many black-and-white noirish films in supporting roles alongside more handsome and popular movie leads like In a Lonely Place with Humphrey Bogart, Ride the Pink Horse, T-Men and Quicksand. The grey haired actor usually played studious types in films. One of his last movie roles was in The Hustler in an uncredited part. He worked on television completing a number of roles before retiring in 1967.

Art Smith was an American pilot. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana; in 1910, his parents mortgaged their home for $1,800 so that he could build a plane, on which he spent six months; however, he crashed it on his first flight, destroying everything but the motor. However, he quickly became a celebrated stunt pilot, notable for flying at night; he was one of the pioneers of skywriting at night using flares attached to his aircraft. Katherine Stinson, one of America's first female stunt pilots, was inspired to compete against him by this feat, and the competition between her, Smith, and other men received widespread press coverage. Smith made two trips to Asia, in 1916 and 1917; his aerobatics demonstrations in Korea during those trips are believed to have inspired both An Chang-nam (Korea's first male pilot) and Kwon Ki-ok (Korea's first female pilot) to learn to fly. He later worked as a test pilot and instructor after the American entry into World War I; he had originally sought to enroll in the United States Army's Air Service, but was refused. His height (5 feet 3 inches) was mentioned as one possible reason for the refusal; the numerous injuries he had suffered in earlier crashes were another. During the war, he was stationed at Langley Field, Virginia and McCook Field, Ohio; he was one of two men trained to fly the De Bothezat helicopter, an early quadrotor helicopter. After the war, he joined the United States Postal Service; he eventually came to fly the overnight mail delivery route between New York and Chicago, established in July 1925. He died in February 1926 at age 32 near Montpelier, Ohio; he was two miles off-course when he crashed into a grove of trees while flying east. After Charles Ames, he was the second overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.

Art Smith (born November 29, 1906 in Toronto, Ontario - died May 16 1962) was a retired professional ice hockey player who played 137 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators.

Was blacklisted during the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s. It was director Elia Kazan who named him. They had both been members of the Group Theater years earlier.

Appeared in 32 Broadway productions, and as a regular member of The Group Theatre, performed in first runs and revivals of Clifford Odets's plays.