Ralph Foster Smart OAM (27 August 1908 – 12 February 2001) was an English-born film and television producer, director and writer, who worked in the UK and Australia.
During the Second World War, Smart joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942 and served until 1945.
[2] Afterward he worked for the Rank Organisation and Ealing Studios, returning to Australia to direct several films beginning with The Overlanders and including Bitter Springs (1950), addressing the mistreatment of young Aborigines.
Later he created and produced the highly successful spy series Danger Man (known as Secret Agent in the United States).
In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for "services to the development of the Australian film industry".