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Sebastian Smith

British actor (1869-1948)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7442529 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sebastian Smith (3 October 1869 – 15 January 1948) was a British stage and film actor. He was born in Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

Filmography

Rescued by Rover (1905)

Prehistoric Peeps (1905)

The Tramp's Dream (1906)

The Blue Carbuncle (1923)

White Cargo (1929)

A Man of Mayfair (1931)

Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931)

Love Lies (1931)

The Double Event (1934)

Virginia's Husband (1934)

Badger's Green (1934)

Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)

Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)

London Melody (1937)

Farewell to Cinderella (1937)

Beauty and the Barge (1937)

Museum Mystery (1937)

Where's That Fire?

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sebastian Smith” is british actor (1869-1948). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sebastian, Smith and British, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1869, 1948, 1905, 1906—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1869-10-03. For this dossier, Sebastian, Smith and British is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “british actor (1869-1948)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7442529. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1869, 1948, 1905 and 1906.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sebastian Smith” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.