Acting

Jim Smith

Born 1940-03-10

Acting credits

Mystic River poster
7.7

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Mystic River

2003

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! poster
7.3

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988

Brain Donors poster
6.1

Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.

Brain Donors

1992

Man of the House poster
5.4

Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, after Ben and Jack's experiences in the Indian Guides, the two become much closer.

Man of the House

1995

Unwed Father poster
7.1

9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.

Unwed Father

1997

Tender Loving Care poster
3.4

When their only child, Jody, is killed in a car accident, Michael and Allison, face an uncertain future. Michael appears to be coping but Allison is so severely traumatized that she is convinced that their daughter is still alive. She wakes Michael in the night to comfort Jody who's just had a nightmare; she make him take breakfast up to the girl's room every morning. Allison's psychiatrist Dr. Turner recommends a full-time, live-in therapist... with disastrous consequences!

Tender Loving Care

1996

Justice for Annie poster
5.2

A woman discovers that the accidental death of her daughter was tied to an insurance scam in this fact-based movie.

Justice for Annie

1996

Contagious poster
4.5

When cholera-tainted shrimp from Mexico is served to people on a Los Angeles-bound plane, an outbreak ensues and a doctor sets out to find and contain the source before it turns into an epidemic.

Contagious

1997

The Prodigal poster
8.3

They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.

The Prodigal

1983

Echo Park poster
5.3

In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next apartment, August, an Austrian bodybuilder, fancies himself the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the pressures of everyday life in LA mount, Jonathan and August vie for May's love.

Echo Park

1985

Mood Indigo poster
9.0

Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murdered by a patient, and a lady lawyer who enlists his help in solving a baffling crime.

Mood Indigo

1993

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige poster
6.6

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1981

The City poster
4.5

The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.

The City

1971