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- Birth nameAnthony John Francis Smith
- Anthony Smith was born on March 30, 1926 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a writer and editor, known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Body (1970) and Twenty-Four Hours (1965). He died on July 7, 2014 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
- In 2011, he and a crew of 3 volunteers (like him, pensioners) crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a raft made of pipes, raising money for the charity WaterAid.
- He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to cinema. He was the director of the British Film Institute in London, England.
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