Jack Smight

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Jack Smight (born March 9, 1925 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , † September 1, 2003 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film and television director.

He began his career as a director in 1949 with the production of several episodes of the television series One Man's Family . This was followed by television productions of various television series, such as four episodes for Twilight Zone, into the 1960s . In 1960 he was shooting with Destiny, West! his first feature film. Four years later he made his cinema debut as a director with I'd Rather Be Rich . Up until the beginning of the 1970s, he made feature films, then again worked for various television series. In 1973 he directed Double Indemnity, a television remake of the classic Woman Without a Conscience . The high point of his career was finally staging the war film Battle for Midway in 1976. In 1989 he made his last film, The Favorite .

Jack Smight had worked twice as a producer: in 1965 for the film The Third Day and five years later again for his own film The Traveling Executioner .

In 1959 he was awarded an Emmy for his work on the Alcoa Theater series .

From 1951 to 2002 he was married to actress Joyce Cunning . They had two children together, their son Alec Smight works as a film editor in the film business.

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SURNAME Smight, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2003
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA