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Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Born: 1907-03-19 • New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography
Die Sister, Die! poster
Die Sister, Die!
1978 • Dr. Thorne
The Disappearance of Flight 412 poster
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974 • Gen. Enright
The Cat Creature poster
The Cat Creature
1973 • Frank Lucas
The Affair poster
The Affair
1973 • Mr. Patterson
Lost Horizon poster
Lost Horizon
1973 • Bill Fergunson
The Female Instinct poster
The Female Instinct
1972 • Warren Packer
Pete 'n' Tillie poster
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972 • Father Keating
The Judge and Jake Wyler poster
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972 • Robert Dodd
The Crooked Hearts poster
The Crooked Hearts
1972 • James Simpson
Another Part of the Forest poster
Another Part of the Forest
1972 • Simon Isham
Probe poster
Probe
1972 • Dr. Edward Laurent
The Night Stalker poster
The Night Stalker
1972 • District Attorney Tom Paine
The Last Child poster
The Last Child
1971 • Gus Iverson
How Awful About Allan poster
How Awful About Allan
1970 • Raymond
The Games poster
The Games
1970 • Kaverley
Death of a Gunfighter poster
Death of a Gunfighter
1969 • Andrew Oxley
Kona Coast poster
Kona Coast
1968 • Akamai Barnes
Assignment to Kill poster
Assignment to Kill
1968 • Mr. Eversley
The Money Jungle poster
The Money Jungle
1967 • Paul Kimmel
Games poster
Games
1967 • Harry Gordon
A Covenant with Death poster
A Covenant with Death
1967 • Oliver Parmalee
The Trouble with Angels poster
The Trouble with Angels
1966 • Uncle George Clancy
The Young Lovers poster
The Young Lovers
1964 • Dr. Shoemaker
Youngblood Hawke poster
Youngblood Hawke
1964 • Paul Winter Sr.
A Distant Trumpet poster
A Distant Trumpet
1964 • Secretary of War
The Balcony poster
The Balcony
1963 • General
Moon Pilot poster
Moon Pilot
1962 • Secretary of the Air Force
Susan Slade poster
Susan Slade
1961 • Dr. Fain
Strangers When We Meet poster
Strangers When We Meet
1960 • Stanley Baxter
This Earth Is Mine poster
This Earth Is Mine
1959 • Francis Fairon
The Mugger poster
The Mugger
1958 • Dr. Pete Graham
Party Girl poster
Party Girl
1958 • Jeffrey Stewart
The Badlanders poster
The Badlanders
1958 • Cyril Lounsberry
Imitation General poster
Imitation General
1958 • Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
Sayonara poster
Sayonara
1957 • Gen. Webster
Comanche poster
Comanche
1956 • Quanah Parker
Paula poster
Paula
1952 • John Rogers
Little Women: Jo's Story poster
Little Women: Jo's Story
1950 • Professor Fritz Bhaer
This Side of the Law poster
This Side of the Law
1950 • David Cummins
The Damned Don't Cry poster
The Damned Don't Cry
1950 • Martin Blackford
My Foolish Heart poster
My Foolish Heart
1950 • Lewis H. Wengler
The Fountainhead poster
The Fountainhead
1949 • Peter Keating
Design for Death poster
Design for Death
1948 • Narrator
The Voice of the Turtle poster
The Voice of the Turtle
1947 • Kenneth Bartlett
Magic Town poster
Magic Town
1947 • Hoopendecker
Nora Prentiss poster
Nora Prentiss
1947 • Dr. Richard Talbot
Okay for Sound poster
Okay for Sound
1946
The Spiral Staircase poster
The Spiral Staircase
1946 • Dr. Parry
No Image
Your Next Job
1945 • Instructor Lieutenant
No Image
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945 • Briefing Colonel
Youth Runs Wild poster
Youth Runs Wild
1944 • Danny Coates
Resisting Enemy Interrogation poster
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944 • Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
The Curse of the Cat People poster
The Curse of the Cat People
1944 • Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Three Russian Girls poster
Three Russian Girls
1943 • John Hill
No Image
Dental Health
1943 • Narrator
This Land Is Mine poster
This Land Is Mine
1943 • Paul Martin
No Image
Three Cadets
1943 • Captain A. Edwards
Forever and a Day poster
Forever and a Day
1943 • Gates Trimble Pomfret
Hitler's Children poster
Hitler's Children
1943 • Professor Nichols
Cat People poster
Cat People
1942 • Oliver Reed
Back Door to Heaven poster
Back Door to Heaven
1939 • Attorney (uncredited)
The Garden Murder Case poster
The Garden Murder Case
1936 • Woode Swift