About Jo Smith
Lived 1868 – 1954 (aged 85–86). Jo Smith was an actor.
Jo Smith (1868 – 2 December 1954) was an Australian playwright who wrote a number of popular melodramas.
Smith was born in Richmond in 1868. He worked as an actor, writer and businessman. His first play was The Miner's Trust. He wrote several successful plays.
Smith donated money from his plays Before the Dawn and The Reveille to soldier organisations.
He left the stage after acting on tour in the 1890s
Smith died in Toorak on 2 December 1954. He was survived by two daughters.
Select plays The Miner's Trust (1908) The Bushwoman (1909) The Girl of the Never Never (1912) Before the Dawn (1915) The Reveille (1917)
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Australian actor, playwright and businessman
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Jo Smith was born in 1868.
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Jo Smith died on 2 December 1954.
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