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Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Acting March 19, 1907 (78 years old) April 23, 1985 New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Kent Smith (born Frank Kent Smith) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Smith's early acting experience started in 1925 when he was one of the founders of the famed Harvard "University Players", which later included Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Joshua Logan and Margaret Sullavan in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Smith's stock experience also included productions with the Maryland Theatre in Baltimore. His professional acting debut was in 1929 in Blind Window in Baltimore, Mayland. He made his Broadway acting debut in 1932 in Men Must Fight. He also appeared on Broadway in Measure for Measure, Sweet Love Remembered, The Best Man, Ah, Wilderness!, Dodsworth, Saint Joan,, Old Acquaintance, Antony and Cleopatra and Bus Stop. Smith moved to Hollywood, California, where he made his film debut in The Garden Murder Case. He appeared in such films as Cat People, Hitler's Children, This Land Is Mine, Three Russian Girls, Youth Runs Wild, The Curse of the Cat People, The Spiral Staircase, Nora Prentiss, Magic Town, My Foolish Heart, The Fountainhead, and The Damned Don't Cry. He continued acting in films such as Comanche, Sayonara, Party Girl, The Mugger, Imitation General, The Badlanders, This Earth Is Mine, Strangers When We Meet, Susan Slade, The Balcony, A Distant Trumpet, Youngblood Hawke, and The Young Lovers. Smith had roles in television films such as How Awful About Allan, The Night Stalker, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Cat Creature, The Affair and The Disappearance of Flight 412. His numerous television credits included a continuing role in the soap opera Peyton Place as Dr. Robert Morton; Smith's wife, actress Edith Atwater, played his character's wife on the series. He began guest-starring in television series in 1949 in The Philco Television Playhouse, and also appeared in Robert Montgomery Presents, Wagon Train, General Electric Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, Have Gun Will Travel, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Rawhide, The Americans, Barnaby Jones, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, and the 1976 miniseries Once an Eagle. His last appearance was in a 1977 episode of Wonder Woman.

Movies 63

The Night Stalker 6.9

The Night Stalker

as District Attorney Tom Paine

1972
Cat People 6.9

Cat People

as Oliver Reed

1942
The Fountainhead 6.8

The Fountainhead

as Peter Keating

1949
The Spiral Staircase 7.1

The Spiral Staircase

as Dr. Parry

1946
Death of a Gunfighter 6.3

Death of a Gunfighter

as Andrew Oxley

1969
Party Girl 6.8

Party Girl

as Jeffrey Stewart

1958
Sayonara 6.7

Sayonara

as Gen. Webster

1957
The Trouble with Angels 6.7

The Trouble with Angels

as Uncle George Clancy

1966
Magic Town 6.8

Magic Town

as Hoopendecker

1947
Lost Horizon 5.4

Lost Horizon

as Bill Fergunson

1973
This Land Is Mine 7.1

This Land Is Mine

as Paul Martin

1943
Comanche 5.2

Comanche

as Quanah Parker

1956
The Curse of the Cat People 6.2

The Curse of the Cat People

as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed

1944
Strangers When We Meet 6.4

Strangers When We Meet

as Stanley Baxter

1960
A Distant Trumpet 5.5

A Distant Trumpet

as Secretary of War

1964
A Covenant with Death 4.8

A Covenant with Death

as Oliver Parmalee

1967
The Badlanders 6.2

The Badlanders

as Cyril Lounsberry

1958
The Damned Don't Cry 7.0

The Damned Don't Cry

as Martin Blackford

1950
Games 6.2

Games

as Harry Gordon

1967
The Disappearance of Flight 412 5.0

The Disappearance of Flight 412

as Gen. Enright

1974
Youngblood Hawke 6.3

Youngblood Hawke

as Paul Winter Sr.

1964
Nora Prentiss 6.3

Nora Prentiss

as Dr. Richard Talbot

1947
Susan Slade 5.9

Susan Slade

as Dr. Fain

1961
Moon Pilot 5.5

Moon Pilot

as Secretary of the Air Force

1962
This Earth Is Mine 6.6

This Earth Is Mine

as Francis Fairon

1959
Forever and a Day 7.5

Forever and a Day

as Gates Trimble Pomfret

1943
Assignment to Kill 6.0

Assignment to Kill

as Mr. Eversley

1968
Die Sister, Die! 5.1

Die Sister, Die!

as Dr. Thorne

1978
My Foolish Heart 6.6

My Foolish Heart

as Lewis H. Wengler

1950
The Last Child 7.3

The Last Child

as Gus Iverson

1971
The Games 7.4

The Games

as Kaverley

1970
The Garden Murder Case 5.7

The Garden Murder Case

as Woode Swift

1936
The Cat Creature 5.3

The Cat Creature

as Frank Lucas

1973
Pete 'n' Tillie 5.8

Pete 'n' Tillie

as Father Keating

1972
The Female Instinct 7.0

The Female Instinct

as Warren Packer

1972
The Crooked Hearts 7.6

The Crooked Hearts

as James Simpson

1972
This Side of the Law 4.8

This Side of the Law

as David Cummins

1950
The Voice of the Turtle 6.8

The Voice of the Turtle

as Kenneth Bartlett

1947
The Affair 3.8

The Affair

as Mr. Patterson

1973
The Money Jungle 5.6

The Money Jungle

as Paul Kimmel

1967
How Awful About Allan 6.0

How Awful About Allan

as Raymond

1970
Paula 8.2

Paula

as John Rogers

1952
Resisting Enemy Interrogation 6.6

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis

1944
Back Door to Heaven 4.8

Back Door to Heaven

as Attorney (uncredited)

1939
The Judge and Jake Wyler 2.5

The Judge and Jake Wyler

as Robert Dodd

1972
Youth Runs Wild 4.5

Youth Runs Wild

as Danny Coates

1944
Another Part of the Forest 10.0

Another Part of the Forest

as Simon Isham

1972
Three Russian Girls 8.0

Three Russian Girls

as John Hill

1943
Hitler's Children 6.1

Hitler's Children

as Professor Nichols

1943
Probe 5.8

Probe

as Dr. Edward Laurent

1972
Imitation General 6.6

Imitation General

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane

1958
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures

as Briefing Colonel

1945
Okay for Sound 6.7

Okay for Sound

1946
The Mugger 6.0

The Mugger

as Dr. Pete Graham

1958
Little Women: Jo's Story

Little Women: Jo's Story

as Professor Fritz Bhaer

1950
Three Cadets 8.0

Three Cadets

as Captain A. Edwards

1943
Design for Death 6.5

Design for Death

as Narrator

1948
The Balcony 5.2

The Balcony

as General

1963
The Young Lovers 4.0

The Young Lovers

as Dr. Shoemaker

1964
Kona Coast 3.3

Kona Coast

as Akamai Barnes

1968
King Richard II

King Richard II

as Bolingbroke

1954
Dental Health

Dental Health

as Narrator

1943
Your Next Job

Your Next Job

as Instructor Lieutenant

1945

TV Shows 70

Perry Mason 7.7

Perry Mason

as Dr. Arthur Younger

1957
Perry Mason 7.7

Perry Mason

as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe

1957
Matinee Theater 5.3

Matinee Theater

1955
Wagon Train 6.6

Wagon Train

as Prof. Paul Owens

1957
Mission: Impossible 7.6

Mission: Impossible

as Senator William Townsend

1966
The Beverly Hillbillies 6.9

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Clifton Cavanaugh

1962
Have Gun, Will Travel 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957
Have Gun, Will Travel 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Avery Coombs

1957
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Mr. Benner

1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Jerry O'Hara

1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Dr. Sam Adamson

1962
Robert Montgomery Presents 6.0

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Prince Albert

1950
Robert Montgomery Presents 6.0

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950
Studio One 5.4

Studio One

as Friedrich Bhaer

1948
Studio One 5.4

Studio One

1948
Daniel Boone 7.0

Daniel Boone

as General Hugh Scott

1964
Naked City 5.7

Naked City

as George Blake

1958
The Wild Wild West 7.6

The Wild Wild West

as Governor Winston E. Brubaker

1965
The Philco Television Playhouse 6.6

The Philco Television Playhouse

as John Wilkes Booth

1948
The Philco Television Playhouse 6.6

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948
Lawman 6.0

Lawman

as Kent Smith

1958
Rawhide 7.3

Rawhide

1959
The F.B.I. 5.6

The F.B.I.

as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter

1965
The F.B.I. 5.6

The F.B.I.

as Wendell Price

1965
The F.B.I. 5.6

The F.B.I.

as Commodore Coldwell

1965
The F.B.I. 5.6

The F.B.I.

as Elwood Hayes

1965
The Defenders 6.3

The Defenders

as Dwight Harkavy

1961
Gunsmoke 6.7

Gunsmoke

as Bealton

1955
Gunsmoke 6.7

Gunsmoke

as Dakota

1955
77 Sunset Strip 7.2

77 Sunset Strip

as Robert Vincent

1958
Night Gallery 7.9

Night Gallery

as Doctor

1970
Night Gallery 7.9

Night Gallery

as Bennett

1970
Omnibus 7.0

Omnibus

as Sergius Saranoff

1952
The Invaders 6.9

The Invaders

as Stan Arthur

1967
The Invaders 6.9

The Invaders

as Edgar Scoville

1967
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Gilbert Hughes

1955
The Outer Limits 7.8

The Outer Limits

as Dr. Block

1963
The Outer Limits 7.8

The Outer Limits

as Aabel

1963
Lights Out 6.0

Lights Out

1949
The Streets of San Francisco 7.1

The Streets of San Francisco

1972
Adventures in Paradise 6.1

Adventures in Paradise

as Michael Legrange

1959
Adventures in Paradise 6.1

Adventures in Paradise

as Crandall

1959
M Squad 5.4

M Squad

as Howard Meston

1957
Wonder Woman 7.0

Wonder Woman

as Chief Justice Brown

1975
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 7.2

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Mr. Macy

1964
The Millionaire 5.8

The Millionaire

as Bill Franklin

1955
Felony Squad 6.5

Felony Squad

1966
Felony Squad 6.5

Felony Squad

as Everett Jason

1966
Bronco 6.0

Bronco

1958
Checkmate 4.8

Checkmate

as Ainslee

1960
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 6.5

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Keats

1971
Arrest and Trial 8.2

Arrest and Trial

1963
The Barbara Stanwyck Show 6.4

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Dexter Willis

1960
Lux Video Theatre 6.7

Lux Video Theatre

as David Barlow

1950
Lux Video Theatre 6.7

Lux Video Theatre

as Steven, at 48

1950
Lux Video Theatre 6.7

Lux Video Theatre

as Steve Ferris

1950
The Great Adventure 10.0

The Great Adventure

as Gen. Nelson Miles

1963
The Great Adventure 10.0

The Great Adventure

as William Carroll

1963
The Great Adventure 10.0

The Great Adventure

as Grymes

1963
The Roaring 20's

The Roaring 20's

1960
Suspicion 6.2

Suspicion

as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist

1957
Cain's Hundred 5.2

Cain's Hundred

as Charles Dennis

1961
Crossroads 6.8

Crossroads

1955
Going My Way 5.8

Going My Way

1962
The Aquanauts 6.0

The Aquanauts

as George

1960
Profiles in Courage 7.5

Profiles in Courage

as Charles Evans Hughes

1964
Once an Eagle 6.8

Once an Eagle

as Gen. Jacklyn

1976
General Electric Theater 6.8

General Electric Theater

as Dr. Jonathan Michael

1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame 8.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Bolingbroke

1951
Delphi Bureau 8.0

Delphi Bureau

as Prescott

1972

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