Beginning his career as a second unit and assistant director, Indiana-born, Oklahoma-educated Cliff Smith became one of the silent era's most prolific directors of low-budget Westerns, directing or co-directing at least ten of William S. Hart's earliest efforts and directing Hart's competitor, Roy Stewart, in another 18. Smith also worked with Tom Mix (The Cyclone and Three Gold Coins, both 1920) and later both produced and directed low-budget oaters starring Pete Morrison. Smith signed with Universal after the advent of sound, helming six action serials either alone or in tandem with Ford I. Beebe. He died from peritonitis.
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Radio Patrol [Serial]
Director |
1937 | |||
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Secret Agent X-9 [Serial] [1937]
Director |
1937 | |||
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Wild West Days
Director |
1937 | |||
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Ace Drummond [Serial]
Director |
1936 | |||
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Jungle Jim [Serial]
Director |
1936 | |||
| 1936 | ||||
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Devil's Canyon
Director |
1935 | |||
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Five Bad Men
Director |
1935 | |||
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Riders of the Golden Gulch
Director |
1932 | |||
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The Texan
Director |
1932 | |||
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The White Outlaw
Director |
1929 | |||
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Open Range
Director |
1927 | |||
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Valley of Hell
Director |
1927 | |||
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Arizona Sweepstakes
Director |
1926 | |||
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Demon
Director |
1926 | |||
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Phantom Bullet
Director |
1926 | |||
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Rustler's Ranch
Director |
1926 | |||
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Scrappin' Kid
Director |
1926 | |||
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Set-Up
Director |
1926 | |||
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Six Shootin' Romance
Director |
1926 | |||
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The Desert's Toll
Director |
1926 | |||
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The Fighting Peacemaker
Director |
1926 | |||
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The Man in the Saddle
Director |
1926 | |||
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Call of Courage
Director |
1925 | |||
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Don Dare Devil
Director |
1925 | |||
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Flying Hoofs
Director |
1925 | |||
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Open Trail
Director |
1925 | |||
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Ridin' Pretty
Director |
1925 | |||
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Ridin' Thunder
Director |
1925 | |||
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Roaring Adventure
Director |
1925 | |||
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Sign of the Cactus
Director |
1925 | |||
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Daring Chances
Director |
1924 | |||
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Fighting Fury
Director |
1924 | |||
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Ridgeway of Montana
Director |
1924 | |||
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Singer Jim McKee
Director |
1924 | |||
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The Back Trail
Director |
1924 | |||
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Western Wallop
Director |
1924 | |||
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Scarred Hands
Director |
1923 | |||
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Wild Bill Hickok
Director |
1923 | |||
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My Dad
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1922 | |||
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Crossing Trails
Director |
1921 | |||
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Western Hearts
Director, Screenwriter |
1921 | |||
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The Cyclone
Director |
1920 | |||
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The Girl Who Dared
Director |
1920 | |||
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The Lone Hand
Director |
1920 | |||
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The She-Wolf
Director |
1919 | |||
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By Proxy
Director |
1918 | |||
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Cactus Crandall
Director |
1918 | |||
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Faith Endurin'
Director |
1918 | |||
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Silent Rider
Director |
1918 | |||
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The Fly God
Director |
1918 | |||
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The Pretender
Director |
1918 | |||
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Untamed
Director |
1918 | |||
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One Shot Ross
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Devil Dodger
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Medicine Man
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Apostle of Vengeance
Director |
1916 | |||
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The Aryan
Director |
1916 |