Steve Smith (comedian)
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Smith as Red Green at Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, Michigan, April 5, 2014.
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| Born |
Steven Smith, Jr. December 24, 1945 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, comedian |
| Years active | 1979–Present |
| Spouse(s) | Morag Smith (m. 1966) |
| Children | David Smith Max Smith |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
Steven "Steve" Smith, Jr., CM (born December 24, 1945) is a Canadian-American actor, writer and comedian. He is best known as the co-creator and star of the sketch comedy show The Red Green Show, for which he portrayed the title character.
Smith was born in Toronto. Before turning to comedy, he studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in Smith & Smith, a sketch comedy series with a cast consisting of Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH and syndicated to other television stations in Canada.
In 1985, Smith created the family sitcom Me & Max. After the first season the Smiths went back to sketch comedy, creating the series The Comedy Mill, which ran for four years. Smith was a writer on Offside, a sports comedy series for CTV, head writer for Global's Laughing Matters, and the TV pilot of Out of Our Minds with David Steinberg. He wrote three episodes of CBS' Top Cops series.
In 1991 Smith starred in the The Red Green Show. In all, 300 episodes of the series were produced. In 1997, Smith was credited as his alter-ego, Red Green, in "Pavement", an episode of the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim show Space Ghost Coast to Coast. In 2002 the full-length movie Duct Tape Forever was produced. Smith writes a syndicated newspaper column as Red Green, distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 2009, as a public service announcement by the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Power Generation, Smith supplied his voice as a talking fish warning the dangers of illegal fishing near government hydro dams. In 2004 Smith hosted a show on Space called Steve Smith Playhouse.
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