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| Cedric Smith | |||||
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| Born | Cedric Smith September 21, 1943 Bournemouth, Hampshire | ||||
| Characters played | Professor X Zebediah Killgrave Red Skull Mentor | ||||
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Cedric Smith (born September 21, 1943) is an actor who played Professor X, Zebediah Killgrave, and Red Skull on X-Men and Spider-Man as well as Mentor on Silver Surfer. He is the first to play Killgrave and Mentor outside the comics.
He married his X-Men co-star Catherine Disher, despite a seventeen year age difference, in 1993. They had a son named Darcy Montgomery Smith, though they later divorced. He later had another child named Maddie Nell.
Biography[]
He reprised the role of Professor X for the video games X-Men and X-Men 2: Clone Wars.
Other notable works include Fast Company, Heavy Metal, The Littlest Hobo, Anne of Green Gables, Night Heat, Friday's Curse, War of the Worlds, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Campbells, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Street Legal, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Million Dollar Babies, Hiroshima, F/X: The Series, Highlander: The Raven, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Bless the Child, the controversial X-Men rip-off Mutant X, Three Days, Earth: Final Conflict, The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John, Totally Spies!, The Company, XIII: The Conspiracy, Friends and Heroes, The Last Christmas, Copper, The Christmas Switch, and Mysticons.