[5] He attended Central Catholic High School—where he starred in productions of Yankee Doodle Joe (as George M. Cohan) and Father Malachy's Miracle (based on the like-named novel)—and later Carnegie Tech,[15][16] where his study was interrupted by a three-year hitch with the OSS during World War II.
[5] It was at Carnegie Tech and, after the war, the Pittsburgh Playhouse that Smith honed his craft, giving well received performances as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page and as Yank in John Patrick's The Hasty Heart.
[...] As [Lynn's] longhair sweetie, Jamie Smith showed a relaxed, natural style and sincerity that launched him creditably in his video preem (he's star of upcoming Israeli pic, 'The Faithful City,' an RKO release).
[22]Regarding his Faithful City performance as the sympathetic but discipline-minded American camp counsellor who gradually comes around to the more single-mindedly compassionate approach favored by his British counterpart (John Slater), Hollywood Reporter's review noted RKO's "introduc[tion of] an interesting personality in Jamie Smith, a ruggedly handsome chap with definite talent [who] com[es] over as a forceful, likable lead.
[26] Later that year, it was reported that Smith had founded his own theater company in New York; on October 3, they performed a staged reading of Albert Camus's The Stranger at Manhattan's Donnell Library Center.