Kent Smith (born Frank Kent Smith) was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Die Sister, Die!
Character:Dr. Thorne
Release Date:01/12/1978
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Character:Gen. Enright
Release Date:01/10/1974
The Cat Creature
Character:Frank Lucas
Release Date:11/12/1973
The Affair
Character:Mr. Patterson
Release Date:20/11/1973
Lost Horizon
Character:Bill Fergunson
Release Date:14/03/1973
The Female Instinct
Character:Warren Packer
Release Date:18/12/1972
Pete 'n' Tillie
Character:Father Keating
Release Date:17/12/1972
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Character:Robert Dodd
Release Date:02/12/1972
The Crooked Hearts
Character:James Simpson
Release Date:08/11/1972
Another Part of the Forest
Character:Simon Isham
Release Date:02/10/1972
Probe
Character:Dr. Edward Laurent
Release Date:21/02/1972
The Night Stalker
Character:District Attorney Tom Paine
Release Date:11/01/1972
The Last Child
Character:Gus Iverson
Release Date:05/10/1971
How Awful About Allan
Character:Raymond
Release Date:22/09/1970
The Games
Character:Kaverley
Release Date:07/08/1970
Death of a Gunfighter
Character:Andrew Oxley
Release Date:08/05/1969
Kona Coast
Character:Akamai Barnes
Release Date:01/05/1968
Assignment to Kill
Character:Mr. Eversley
Release Date:01/05/1968
The Money Jungle
Character:Paul Kimmel
Release Date:15/12/1967
Games
Character:Harry Gordon
Release Date:17/09/1967
A Covenant with Death
Character:Oliver Parmalee
Release Date:15/02/1967
The Trouble with Angels
Character:Uncle George Clancy
Release Date:29/03/1966
The Young Lovers
Character:Dr. Shoemaker
Release Date:12/11/1964
Youngblood Hawke
Character:Paul Winter Sr.
Release Date:04/11/1964
A Distant Trumpet
Character:Secretary of War
Release Date:20/05/1964
The Balcony
Character:General
Release Date:21/03/1963
Moon Pilot
Character:Secretary of the Air Force
Release Date:05/04/1962
Susan Slade
Character:Dr. Fain
Release Date:08/11/1961
Strangers When We Meet
Character:Stanley Baxter
Release Date:29/06/1960
This Earth Is Mine
Character:Francis Fairon
Release Date:08/07/1959
The Mugger
Character:Dr. Pete Graham
Release Date:01/11/1958
Party Girl
Character:Jeffrey Stewart
Release Date:28/10/1958
The Badlanders
Character:Cyril Lounsberry
Release Date:03/09/1958
Imitation General
Character:Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
Release Date:20/08/1958
Sayonara
Character:Gen. Webster
Release Date:25/12/1957
Comanche
Character:Quanah Parker
Release Date:01/03/1956
Paula
Character:John Rogers
Release Date:15/05/1952
Little Women: Jo's Story
Character:Professor Fritz Bhaer
Release Date:25/12/1950
This Side of the Law
Character:David Cummins
Release Date:17/06/1950
The Damned Don't Cry
Character:Martin Blackford
Release Date:13/05/1950
My Foolish Heart
Character:Lewis H. Wengler
Release Date:19/01/1950
The Fountainhead
Character:Peter Keating
Release Date:25/06/1949
Design for Death
Character:Narrator
Release Date:10/06/1948
The Voice of the Turtle
Character:Kenneth Bartlett
Release Date:25/12/1947
Magic Town
Character:Hoopendecker
Release Date:07/10/1947
Nora Prentiss
Character:Dr. Richard Talbot
Release Date:22/02/1947
Okay for Sound
Character:
Release Date:07/09/1946
The Spiral Staircase
Character:Dr. Parry
Release Date:26/01/1946
Your Next Job
Character:Instructor Lieutenant
Release Date:09/12/1945
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Character:Briefing Colonel
Release Date:03/12/1945
Youth Runs Wild
Character:Danny Coates
Release Date:01/09/1944
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Character:Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
Release Date:01/08/1944
The Curse of the Cat People
Character:Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Release Date:02/03/1944
Three Russian Girls
Character:John Hill
Release Date:30/12/1943
Dental Health
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/11/1943
This Land Is Mine
Character:Paul Martin
Release Date:07/05/1943
Three Cadets
Character:Captain A. Edwards
Release Date:26/01/1943
Forever and a Day
Character:Gates Trimble Pomfret
Release Date:21/01/1943
Hitler's Children
Character:Professor Nichols
Release Date:06/01/1943
Cat People
Character:Oliver Reed
Release Date:05/12/1942
Back Door to Heaven
Character:Attorney (uncredited)
Release Date:19/04/1939
The Garden Murder Case
Character:Woode Swift
Release Date:21/02/1936
Television Appearances
Once an Eagle
Character:Gen. Jacklyn
Gibbsville
Character:
Wonder Woman
Character:Chief Justice Brown
Delphi Bureau
Character:Prescott
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Character:Keats
Night Gallery
Character:Doctor
Night Gallery
Character:Bennett
The Invaders
Character:Stan Arthur
The Invaders
Character:Edgar Scoville
Mission: Impossible
Character:Senator William Townsend
Felony Squad
Character:
The F.B.I.
Character:US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
The F.B.I.
Character:Wendell Price
The F.B.I.
Character:Commodore Coldwell
The F.B.I.
Character:Elwood Hayes
The Wild Wild West
Character:Governor Winston E. Brubaker
Profiles in Courage
Character:Charles Evans Hughes
Daniel Boone
Character:General Hugh Scott
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Character:Mr. Macy
The Great Adventure
Character:Gen. Nelson Miles
The Great Adventure
Character:William Carroll
The Great Adventure
Character:Grymes
The Outer Limits
Character:Dr. Block
The Outer Limits
Character:Aabel
Arrest and Trial
Character:
Going My Way
Character:
The Beverly Hillbillies
Character:Clifton Cavanaugh
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character:Mr. Benner
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character:Jerry O'Hara
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character:Dr. Sam Adamson
Cain's Hundred
Character:Charles Dennis
The Defenders
Character:Dwight Harkavy
The Roaring 20's
Character:
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character:Dexter Willis
Checkmate
Character:Ainslee
The Aquanauts
Character:George
Adventures in Paradise
Character:Michael Legrange
Adventures in Paradise
Character:Crandall
Rawhide
Character:
77 Sunset Strip
Character:Robert Vincent
Lawman
Character:Kent Smith
Naked City
Character:George Blake
Bronco
Character:
Suspicion
Character:Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
Perry Mason
Character:Dr. Arthur Younger
Perry Mason
Character:Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
M Squad
Character:Howard Meston
Wagon Train
Character:Prof. Paul Owens
Have Gun, Will Travel
Character:
Have Gun, Will Travel
Character:Avery Coombs
Matinee Theater
Character:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character:Gilbert Hughes
Gunsmoke
Character:Bealton
Gunsmoke
Character:Dakota
The Millionaire
Character:Bill Franklin
General Electric Theater
Character:Dr. Jonathan Michael
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Bolingbroke
Lux Video Theatre
Character:David Barlow
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Steven, at 48
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Steve Ferris
Robert Montgomery Presents
Character:Prince Albert
Robert Montgomery Presents
Character:
Lights Out
Character:
Studio One
Character:Friedrich Bhaer
Studio One
Character:
The Philco Television Playhouse
Character:John Wilkes Booth
The Philco Television Playhouse
Character:
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