Steve Smith

Steve Smith (born 1946, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and actor.

Before turning to comedy, Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo, and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write and star in Smith & Smith, a sketch comedy series with a cast of two: Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was aired on Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH-TV, and syndicated to other television stations in Canada.

In 1985, Smith decided to try a different format, and created the family sitcom Me & Max. After just one season, however, Steve and Morag went back to sketch comedy, creating the new series The Comedy Mill, which ran for four years.

In 1991, Smith made one of his recurring characters, who had appeared on all three previous shows, into the star of a new series, The Red Green Show. Red Green, an inept handyman whose answer to almost everything -- including, in one episode, Quebec separatism -- is duct tape, proved to be not only one of the most enduring characters in Canadian television history, but one of the most lucrative and durable Canadian television exports as well.

The Red Green Show is still producing and airing new episodes in 2004, and Smith has stated that he'll continue the show as long as there's an audience for it.

He also writes a syndicate newspaper column as Red Green, distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association.

Professor Steve Smith is a prominent international relations theorist.

Professor Steve Smith is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, and a professor of International Studies.

Steve Smith has a BSc in Politics and International Studies, an MSc in International Studies and a PhD in International Relations, all from Southampton University. During his 26-year academic career he has written or edited 13 books, written nearly 100 academic papers and has given over 150 academic presentations in 22 countries. His most widely read work (co-authored with the late Professor Martin Hollis) is Explaining and Understanding International Relations, published by Oxford University Press. He is the editor of the prestigious Cambridge University Press / British International Studies Association series.

Professor Smith's career has included positions as Director of the Centre for Public Choice Studies at the University of East Anglia and Head of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth. Last year he became only the second UK academic to be elected President of the International Studies Association in the USA. In 2000 Professor Smith was elected to become an Academician of the Social Sciences (AcSS).