Juney Smith

A native New Yorker and graduate of LIU Brooklyn, with a B.F.A. and which he attended on a Athletic Scholarship (Basketball) He is a veteran actor, director, writer and producer of stage, screen and television. As an actor on stage he acted in classic plays and portrayed the roles of Walter Lee in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun", Oscar Madison in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" and Solly Two Kings in August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean". Mr. Smith's most recent television credits include, "FBI", "Law &Order SVU", "Blue Bloods", "The Breaks" and as far back as, ER, "Mash", "Growing Pains", "Hill Street Blues" "Highway to Heaven", "Matlock", "and beginning with "The White Shadow". On film, he Co-Starred opposite Robin Williams and Forest Whitaker as Sgt.Phil McPherson in the comedy classic "Good Morning Vietnam" Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as Detective Tom Wyler in the action classic "Lethal Weapon 2", as "Chief" in "Friends and Romans" and as "Anthony" in "Colewell "opposite Karen Allen. The former Artistic Director of 4 theatre companies from 1979 to 1998 "The Renaissance Drama Company and Mattie Theatre Company, New York and "Rainbow Connection Drama Company and Rebirth Drama Company in Los Angeles where he directed over 100 plays including; "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf", "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" "Livin Fat" and "Twelve Angry Men" In 1988 he wrote the stage play "The Nation". After completing an intensive film making program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Mr. Smith transformed the stage play into his first feature film in 1992 "The Nation" In 1999 along with partners formed the movie production company "Drummond and Smith Entertainment Inc. and later renamed Rainbow Media Group,Inc. He has written, directed and produced 25 feature films under that umbrella where all the films are distributed in the major retail stores online at Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Amazon and digital markets nationwide. Films such as "City Teacher/A Hard Lesson" Starring Glynn Turman, Ella Joyce, Elain Graham, Frank Vincent, Chuck D and Tommy Ford, "Fake Preacher" Starring Eddie Goines and Alyah Horsford" and "Clockin' Green" Starring Joyce Sylvester and Ella Joyce, Charles Weldon and Dean Irby. The feature documentary film "King of Stage, The Woodie King Jr. Story" Starring Woodie King Jr., Founder and Producing Director of the famed "New Federal Theatre", in which he was awarded the Pan African Film Festival 2018 Documentary Director's Award. He followed that up in 2019 with the feature documentary film "The Robeson Effect" Starring Danny Glover and Ben Guillory that chronicles some of the life and times of Danny Glover, his longtime friendship with Actor Ben Guillory, their shared admiration for Paul Robeson and the creation of "The Robey Theatre Company" which has garnered selections to numerous film festivals. His Documentary "King Arthur and The Count" chronicles African Americans on Broadway starring Actors Arthur French and Count Stovall, Writers Richard Wesley and Dominique Morisseau and Producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones- Harvey to be released 2021.