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Ans:  Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, the England Test cricketer who became a stage and film actor. In 1932 he founded the Hollywood Cricket Club ( in image ) and created a pitch with imported English grass.

Commander McBragg (in image) in the TV cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a parody of him. The cartoon character also appears in The Simpsons episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story".

Evelyn Waugh satirized the Hollywood Cricket Club in his 1946 book The Loved One, with its protagonist "Sir Auberon Abercombie", a thinly-disguised portrait of Sir Aubrey Smith.The book was adapted in 1965 by Terry Southern into a sprawling film of the same name.(in image)



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