Maurice Smith (producer)

Maurice Smith is a British-born film producer. He is best known for his work in the exploitation field in the USA and Canada.

Smith's producing career started with the biker films The Glory Stompers and The Cycle Savages. He then made Free Grass which. became Scream Free!. Some films Smith produced took several years to be relieved such as November Children.

In the early 1970s Smith made a series of softcore films with Gregory Corarito including Diamond Stud.

Smith's first film with Roger Corman was Screwballs, shot in Canada. He followed this with Oddballs.

Personal life

Smith was married to Terrea Oster, a teacher who appeared in several of his movies. They have four children, three boys and a girl. Two of the sons are actors, Douglas Smith and Gregory Smith.

Select films

• The Glory Stompers (1967) - executive producer
• The Cycle Savages (1969)
• Scream Free! (1969) aka Free Grass - producer
• Diamond Stud (1970) - writer, assistant producer
• Love, Swedish Style (1972) - also directed
• November Children (1972, filmed 1969) - producer
• Hard on the Trail (1972)
• How Come Nobody's on Our Side? (1974, filmed 1972) - producer
• Delinquent School Girls (1975) aka Carnal Madness - producer
• Julie Darling (1982)
• Screwballs (1983) - producer
• Spasms (1983)
• Oddballs (1984) - producer
• Screwballs II (1985) - producer
• Recruits (1986) - producer
• Grotesque (1988)
• Screwball Hotel (1988) - producer
• Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1990)
• Curse of the Crystal Eye (1991)
• Demon Keeper (1994)
• Death Game (1996)
• Murdercycle (1999)
• L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
• Totally Blonde (2001)
• Trancers 6 (2002)
• Canes (2006)
• Alien Agent (2007)
• Immortally Yours (2009)
• Forget Me Not (2009)
• Sawblade (2010)

External links

• Maurice Smith at IMDb