British actor, born on July 21, 1863 in London, England, United Kingdom as Charles Aubrey Smith. He graduated from the University of Cambridge. He was in his thirties when he began his career on the stage. He married Isabelle Wood, and they had a child. His most famous works are Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), and Rebecca (1940). He was awarded the OBE in 1938 and knighted in 1944. He died on December 20, 1948, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, of pneumonia, at the age of 85.