Orville Smith — Sorrowful Jones Character Profile

About Orville Smith

A gambler who places a bet on Dreamy Joe with Jones, leaving his four-year-old daughter Martha Jane as collateral. He is killed by Once Over Sam for accidentally overhearing Big Steve's conversation about the rigged race, which triggers the main conflict.

Character Facts

Played by

Paul Lees

Appears in

Sorrowful Jones (1949)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Orville Smith — Professional Bookie And Customer — Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones (Bob Hope)

  Standard gambling transaction that triggers the custody plotline.

• Orville Smith — Conflict Target And Killer — Big Steve Holloway (Bruce Cabot)

  Silencing relationship where the victim becomes a liability.

• Orville Smith — Conflict Assassin And Victim — Once Over Sam (Tom Pedi)

  Lethal enforcement relationship driven by gangster secrecy.

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More characters from Sorrowful Jones

• Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones (Bob Hope)
• Gladys O'Neill (Lucille Ball)
• Regret (William Demarest)
• Big Steve Holloway (Bruce Cabot)
• Reardon (Thomas Gomez)
• Once Over Sam (Tom Pedi)
• Psychiatrist (Emmett Vogan)
• Martha Jane Smith (Mary Jane Saunders)
• Doc Chesley (Houseley Stevenson)
• Big Steve's Bodyguard (Ben Welden)
• Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited) (Claire Carleton)
• First Jockey (uncredited) (Bill Cartledge)