# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pete-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:17:09.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pete-smith"
name: "Pete Smith"
slug: "pete-smith"
description: "Peter Schmidt, Americanized to Pete Smith, was a film producer based in Hollywood, California. He is best known for the Pete Smith Specialties, a long-running series of general-interest short films, ranging from human-interest stories to sports subjects. Best remembered are the comedies, exaggerating common pet peeves and household problems, with Smith offering pointed commentary in his distinctive, nasal tenor."
tagline: "American publicist and short subject producer and narrator (1892-1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pete_Smith_1918_Publicity_Photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1892-09-04"
deathDate: "1979-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.19
  momentum:             2.1976576287502
  historical:           9.419728000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809570/"
    handle:    "nm0809570"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%B9_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%AA%DA%BE_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B1)"
    title: "پیٹ اسمتھ (فلم پروڈیوسر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "بيت سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "بيت سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Smith"
    title: "Pete Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Smith_(Filmproduzent)"
    title: "Pete Smith (Filmproduzent)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Smith_(film_producer)"
    title: "Pete Smith (film producer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Smith_(productor)"
    title: "Pete Smith (productor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "پیت اسمیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Smith"
    title: "Pete Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%82_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%82_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80)"
    title: "Піт Сміт (продюсер)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1753034"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1236821"
    title: "Pete Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump