Gavin Smith (film studio executive)

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Gavin Smith (December 10, 1954 – May 2012) was an American college basketball star, actor, stuntman, and film studio executive, formerly a regional manager of distribution for 20th Century Fox for 18 years. He disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 2012, and was later declared dead before his remains were found in 2014 and a suspect identified and convicted in 2017 for Smith's murder. Prior to his film industry career, Smith played basketball at UCLA, where he was part of the 1975 team that won that year's NCAA championship, the last for coach John Wooden. Smith later played at Hawaii, where he set the school's single-season scoring record of 23.4 points per game which remained undefeated as of 2012. He also worked as a film stuntman and occasional actor, prominently with a small role as a bartender in Cobb, the 1994 biopic of baseball player Ty Cobb. On the night of May 1, 2012, Smith left a friend's house in Oak Park, where he had been staying due to reported marital difficulties...

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