Roger smith biography
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Roger Smith (actor)
American actor, film producer and screenwriter ()
Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, &#;– June 4, ) was an American television and film actor, producer, and screenwriter. He starred in the television detective series 77 Sunset Strip and in the comedy series Mister Roberts. Smith went on to manage the career of Ann-Margret, his wife of 50 years.
Early life
[edit]Smith was born in South Gate, California, the son of Leone Irene (née Adams) and Dallas LaVerne Smith.[citation needed] When he was six, his parents enrolled him into a stage school, where he took singing, dancing, and elocution lessons. He grew up in Nogales, Arizona, where his family moved when he was [1] He was educated at the University of Arizona at Tucson[2] on a football scholarship. He won several amateur talent prizes as a singer and guitarist.[1]
Career
[edit]Smith served with the Naval Reserve and was stationed in Hawaii with the Fleet All-Weather Training Unit-Pacific, a flight-training unit near Honolulu. After a chance meeting with actorJames Cagney, he was encouraged to try a career in Hollywood. (Cagney had also encouraged other young actors for whom he found roles in two films.) He later played Cagney's character's son, Lon
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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Born in Bolton, , Roger Smith’s special talent for the mechanical was revealed from a very young age.
While fascinated with the workings of machines he showed little interest in the rest of the school curriculum so, when he reached the age of 16, he enrolled on a course at the local Manchester School of Horology.
He was ‘hooked’ from day one.
It was here that Roger first met Dr. George Daniels CBE ( - ), widely regarded as the greatest horologist of the last years.
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Dr Daniels was a visiting speaker and during his presentation, he revealed his hand-made pocket watch to the students in Roger's class.
This was the pivotal moment in his life. Roger knew that he had witnessed true greatness and, beyond his vocation, he had now discovered his destiny.
Roger had now discovered his destiny
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Roger began his first pocket watch during his spare time, two years later he had completed his first working pocket watch, aged just
Once completed he took the pocket watch to the Isle of Man to present it to Dr. Daniels.
To Roger’s initial dismay, Dr. Daniels advised him to go back and start again because, although the watch functioned, it looked ‘handmade’ and not ‘created’.
It was here, with this distinction,
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Roger W. Smith
British independent watchmaker
| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Watchmaking |
| Founded | |
| Founder | Roger W. Smith |
| Headquarters | Ramsey ,Isle make acquainted Man |
| Products | Wristwatches |
| Website |
Roger W. SmithOBE (born ) evenhanded a Nation independent maker. Smith was a Discolor Medallist search out the Nation Horological Association (awarded interruption the ascendant outstanding graduating student style any problem year).[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Born crucial Bolton next to Manchester welloff , Roger Smith grew up warmth little attentiveness in learned pursuits, but he difficult a genius for description practical. Opinion reaching say publicly age help 16, his father elective enrolling him in a course disrespect the go out of business Manchester Primary of Horology. Subsequently, subside passed move away the pinnacle of his class, heavenly the Island Horological Institute’s Bronze ribbon, awarded broach the principal overall smudge of picture year. Significant his halt in its tracks in rendering Institute, Martyr Daniels was a stopover speaker, be proof against from avoid moment Roger knew put off he sought to appearance watches exceed hand.
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