Kent Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1907
- Died
- April 23, 1985 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Die Sister, Die!
Movie · as Dr. Thorne
Once an Eagle
TV · as Gen. Jacklyn · 7 eps
Wonder Woman
TV · as Chief Justice Brown · 1 ep
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Movie · as Gen. Enright
Lost Horizon
Movie · as Bill Fergunson
The Cat Creature
Movie · as Frank Lucas
The Affair
Movie · as Mr. Patterson
The Crooked Hearts
Movie · as James Simpson
The Female Instinct
Movie · as Warren Packer
The Night Stalker
Movie · as District Attorney Tom Paine
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Movie · as Robert Dodd
Probe
Movie · as Dr. Edward Laurent
Another Part of the Forest
Movie · as Simon Isham
Pete 'n' Tillie
Movie · as Father Keating
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · 1 ep
Delphi Bureau
TV · as Prescott · 1 ep
The Last Child
Movie · as Gus Iverson
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV · as Keats · 1 ep
How Awful About Allan
Movie · as Raymond
The Games
Movie · as Kaverley
Night Gallery
TV · as Doctor, Bennett · 1 ep
Death of a Gunfighter
Movie · as Andrew Oxley
Kona Coast
Movie · as Akamai Barnes
Assignment to Kill
Movie · as Mr. Eversley
Games
Movie · as Harry Gordon
A Covenant with Death
Movie · as Oliver Parmalee
The Money Jungle
Movie · as Paul Kimmel
The Invaders
TV · as Stan Arthur, Edgar Scoville · 27 eps
The Trouble with Angels
Movie · as Uncle George Clancy
Mission: Impossible
TV · as Senator William Townsend · 1 ep
Felony Squad
TV · as Everett Jason
The F.B.I.
TV · as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter, Wendell Price, Commodore Coldwell, Elwood Hayes · 1 ep
The Wild Wild West
TV · as Governor Winston E. Brubaker · 1 ep
A Distant Trumpet
Movie · as Secretary of War
Youngblood Hawke
Movie · as Paul Winter Sr.
The Young Lovers
Movie · as Dr. Shoemaker
Daniel Boone
TV · as General Hugh Scott · 1 ep
Profiles in Courage
TV · as Charles Evans Hughes · 1 ep
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Mr. Macy · 1 ep
The Balcony
Movie · as General
The Great Adventure
TV · as Gen. Nelson Miles, William Carroll, Grymes · 2 eps
Arrest and Trial
TV · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Dr. Block, Aabel · 1 ep
Moon Pilot
Movie · as Secretary of the Air Force
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · as Clifton Cavanaugh · 1 ep
Going My Way
TV · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Mr. Benner, Jerry O'Hara, Dr. Sam Adamson · 1 ep
Susan Slade
Movie · as Dr. Fain
Cain's Hundred
TV · as Charles Dennis · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as Dwight Harkavy · 1 ep
Strangers When We Meet
Movie · as Stanley Baxter
The Aquanauts
TV · as George · 1 ep
The Roaring 20's
TV · 1 ep
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as Dexter Willis · 1 ep
Checkmate
TV · as Ainslee · 1 ep
This Earth Is Mine
Movie · as Francis Fairon
Rawhide
TV
Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Michael Legrange, Crandall · 1 ep
Party Girl
Movie · as Jeffrey Stewart
The Mugger
Movie · as Dr. Pete Graham
Imitation General
Movie · as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
The Badlanders
Movie · as Cyril Lounsberry
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Robert Vincent · 1 ep
Naked City
TV · as George Blake · 1 ep
Bronco
TV · 1 ep
Lawman
TV · as Kent Smith · 1 ep
Sayonara
Movie · as Gen. Webster
Perry Mason
TV · as Dr. Arthur Younger, Dr. Curtis Metcalfe · 1 ep
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Avery Coombs · 2 eps
M Squad
TV · as Howard Meston · 1 ep
Wagon Train
TV · as Prof. Paul Owens · 1 ep
Suspicion
TV · as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist · 2 eps
Comanche
Movie · as Quanah Parker
Gunsmoke
TV · as Bealton, Dakota · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Gilbert Hughes · 1 ep
The Millionaire
TV · as Bill Franklin · 1 ep
Matinee Theater
TV · 1 ep
Crossroads
TV · 1 ep
King Richard II
Movie · as Bolingbroke
General Electric Theater
TV · as Dr. Jonathan Michael · 2 eps
Paula
Movie · as John Rogers
Omnibus
TV · as Sergius Saranoff · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Bolingbroke · 1 ep
The Damned Don't Cry
Movie · as Martin Blackford
This Side of the Law
Movie · as David Cummins
My Foolish Heart
Movie · as Lewis H. Wengler
Little Women: Jo's Story
Movie · as Professor Fritz Bhaer
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as David Barlow, Steve Ferris, Steven, at 48 · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Prince Albert · 1 ep
The Fountainhead
Movie · as Peter Keating
Lights Out
TV · 1 ep
Design for Death
Movie · as Narrator
Studio One
TV · as Friedrich Bhaer · 2 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as John Wilkes Booth · 1 ep
Nora Prentiss
Movie · as Dr. Richard Talbot
The Voice of the Turtle
Movie · as Kenneth Bartlett
Magic Town
Movie · as Hoopendecker
The Spiral Staircase
Movie · as Dr. Parry
Okay for Sound
Movie
Your Next Job
Movie · as Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Movie · as Briefing Colonel
The Curse of the Cat People
Movie · as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Youth Runs Wild
Movie · as Danny Coates
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Movie · as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
This Land Is Mine
Movie · as Paul Martin
Hitler's Children
Movie · as Professor Nichols
Three Russian Girls
Movie · as John Hill
Forever and a Day
Movie · as Gates Trimble Pomfret
Three Cadets
Movie · as Captain A. Edwards
Dental Health
Movie · as Narrator
Cat People
Movie · as Oliver Reed
Back Door to Heaven
Movie · as Attorney (uncredited)
The Garden Murder Case
Movie · as Woode Swift