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Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Acting1907New 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.

Acting History

1978
Die Sister, Die!
as Dr. Thorne
1977
Wonder Woman
TVas Chief Justice Brown1 eps
1976
Once an Eagle
TVas Gen. Jacklyn
1973
The Affair
as Mr. Patterson
Lost Horizon
as Bill Fergunson
The Cat Creature
as Frank Lucas
1972
The Crooked Hearts
as James Simpson
Probe
as Dr. Edward Laurent
The Night Stalker
as District Attorney Tom Paine
Pete 'n' Tillie
as Father Keating
The Female Instinct
as Warren Packer
The F.B.I.
TVas Elwood Hayes1 eps
Night Gallery
TVas Doctor / Bennett1 eps
Delphi Bureau
TVas Prescott
1971
The Last Child
as Gus Iverson
1970
The Games
as Kaverley
1969
Death of a Gunfighter
as Andrew Oxley
1968
Assignment to Kill
as Mr. Eversley
Kona Coast
as Akamai Barnes
1967
A Covenant with Death
as Oliver Parmalee
Games
as Harry Gordon
The Money Jungle
as Paul Kimmel
Daniel Boone
TVas General Hugh Scott1 eps
The Invaders
TVas Edgar Scoville12 eps
Mission: Impossible
TVas Senator William Townsend1 eps
The Wild Wild West
TVas Governor Winston E. Brubaker1 eps
1966
The Trouble with Angels
as Uncle George Clancy
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TVas Mr. Macy1 eps
1965
The Beverly Hillbillies
TVas Clifton Cavanaugh1 eps
Profiles in Courage
TVas Charles Evans Hughes1 eps
1964
Youngblood Hawke
as Paul Winter Sr.
The Young Lovers
as Dr. Shoemaker
A Distant Trumpet
as Secretary of War
The Great Adventure
TVas Grymes1 eps
Gunsmoke
TVas Dakota1 eps
The Outer Limits
TVas Aabel1 eps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TVas Dr. Sam Adamson / Mr. Benner / Jerry O'Hara1 eps
1963
The Balcony
as General
Perry Mason
TVas Dr. Curtis Metcalfe1 eps
1962
Moon Pilot
as Secretary of the Air Force
Cain's Hundred
TVas Charles Dennis1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
TVas Avery Coombs1 eps
Adventures in Paradise
TVas Crandall1 eps
Checkmate
TVas Ainslee1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
TVas Robert Vincent1 eps
1961
Susan Slade
as Dr. Fain
The Defenders
TVas Dwight Harkavy1 eps
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TVas Dexter Willis1 eps
Lawman
TVas Kent Smith1 eps
1960
Strangers When We Meet
as Stanley Baxter
The Aquanauts
TVas George
1959
This Earth Is Mine
as Francis Fairon
Naked City
TVas George Blake1 eps
The Millionaire
TVas Bill Franklin1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TVas Gilbert Hughes1 eps
1958
The Mugger
as Dr. Pete Graham
Party Girl
as Jeffrey Stewart
Imitation General
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
The Badlanders
as Cyril Lounsberry
Suspicion
TVas Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist2 eps
M Squad
TVas Howard Meston1 eps
1957
Sayonara
as Gen. Webster
Wagon Train
TVas Prof. Paul Owens1 eps
1956
Comanche
as Quanah Parker
1952
Paula
as John Rogers
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Bolingbroke
1950
The Damned Don't Cry
as Martin Blackford
This Side of the Law
as David Cummins
My Foolish Heart
as Lewis H. Wengler
Little Women: Jo's Story
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
Lux Video Theatre
TVas Steven, at 48 / Steve Ferris / David Barlow
1949
The Fountainhead
as Peter Keating
1948
Design for Death
as Narrator
1947
Nora Prentiss
as Dr. Richard Talbot
Magic Town
as Hoopendecker
The Voice of the Turtle
as Kenneth Bartlett
1945
Your Next Job
as Instructor Lieutenant
1944
The Curse of the Cat People
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Youth Runs Wild
as Danny Coates
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
1943
Hitler's Children
as Professor Nichols
Forever and a Day
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
This Land Is Mine
as Paul Martin
Three Cadets
as Captain A. Edwards
Dental Health
as Narrator
1942
Cat People
as Oliver Reed
1939
Back Door to Heaven
as Attorney (uncredited)
1936

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
3/19/1907
Day of Death
4/23/1985
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA