PETE SMITH

Pete Smith was a producer and movie narrator from the 1920s to the 1950s. He first started producing short subjects in 1931, when they were referred to as "Pete Smith Specialties". He made an astounding 155 of these over the next 24 years, narrating 135 of them, and sometimes he was billed as "A Smith Named Pete". The shorts covered a wide range of unusual subjects, kind of like "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Smith passed away in 1979 at the age of 86.