Kent Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 19, 1907
- Died
- Apr 23, 1985 (aged 78)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 113
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
Cat People
1942Movie
Oliver Reed
Wonder Woman
1975TV
Chief Justice Brown
Mission: Impossible
1966TV
Senator William Townsend
The Spiral Staircase
1946Movie
Dr. Parry
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Gilbert Hughes
The Outer Limits
1963TV
Dr. Block, Aabel
Filmography
Die Sister, Die!
1978Movie
Dr. Thorne
Once an Eagle
1976TV
Gen. Jacklyn
Wonder Woman
1975TV
Chief Justice Brown
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974Movie
Gen. Enright
The Cat Creature
1973Movie
Frank Lucas
The Affair
1973Movie
Mr. Patterson
Lost Horizon
1973Movie
Bill Fergunson
The Female Instinct
1972Movie
Warren Packer
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972Movie
Father Keating
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972Movie
Robert Dodd
The Crooked Hearts
1972Movie
James Simpson
Delphi Bureau
1972TV
Prescott
Another Part of the Forest
1972Movie
Simon Isham
The Streets of San Francisco
1972TV
Probe
1972Movie
Dr. Edward Laurent
The Night Stalker
1972Movie
District Attorney Tom Paine
The Last Child
1971Movie
Gus Iverson
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971TV
Keats
Night Gallery
1970TV
Doctor, Bennett
How Awful About Allan
1970Movie
Raymond
The Games
1970Movie
Kaverley
Death of a Gunfighter
1969Movie
Andrew Oxley
Kona Coast
1968Movie
Akamai Barnes
Assignment to Kill
1968Movie
Mr. Eversley
The Money Jungle
1967Movie
Paul Kimmel
Games
1967Movie
Harry Gordon
A Covenant with Death
1967Movie
Oliver Parmalee
The Invaders
1967TV
Stan Arthur, Edgar Scoville
Mission: Impossible
1966TV
Senator William Townsend
Felony Squad
1966TV
The Trouble with Angels
1966Movie
Uncle George Clancy
The F.B.I.
1965TV
US Attorney Leonard Vanatter, Wendell Price, Commodore Coldwell, Elwood Hayes
The Wild Wild West
1965TV
Governor Winston E. Brubaker
The Young Lovers
1964Movie
Dr. Shoemaker
Profiles in Courage
1964TV
Charles Evans Hughes
Youngblood Hawke
1964Movie
Paul Winter Sr.
Daniel Boone
1964TV
General Hugh Scott
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964TV
Mr. Macy
A Distant Trumpet
1964Movie
Secretary of War
The Great Adventure
1963TV
Gen. Nelson Miles, William Carroll, Grymes
The Outer Limits
1963TV
Dr. Block, Aabel
Arrest and Trial
1963TV
The Balcony
1963Movie
General
Going My Way
1962TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962TV
Clifton Cavanaugh
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Mr. Benner, Jerry O'Hara, Dr. Sam Adamson
Moon Pilot
1962Movie
Secretary of the Air Force
Susan Slade
1961Movie
Dr. Fain
Cain's Hundred
1961TV
Charles Dennis
The Defenders
1961TV
Dwight Harkavy
The Roaring 20's
1960TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960TV
Dexter Willis
Checkmate
1960TV
Ainslee
The Aquanauts
1960TV
George
Strangers When We Meet
1960Movie
Stanley Baxter
Adventures in Paradise
1959TV
Michael Legrange, Crandall
This Earth Is Mine
1959Movie
Francis Fairon
Rawhide
1959TV
The Mugger
1958Movie
Dr. Pete Graham
Party Girl
1958Movie
Jeffrey Stewart
77 Sunset Strip
1958TV
Robert Vincent
Lawman
1958TV
Kent Smith
Naked City
1958TV
George Blake
Bronco
1958TV
The Badlanders
1958Movie
Cyril Lounsberry
Imitation General
1958Movie
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
Sayonara
1957Movie
Gen. Webster
Suspicion
1957TV
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
Perry Mason
1957TV
Dr. Arthur Younger, Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
M Squad
1957TV
Howard Meston
Wagon Train
1957TV
Prof. Paul Owens
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957TV
Avery Coombs
Comanche
1956Movie
Quanah Parker
Matinee Theater
1955TV
Crossroads
1955TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Gilbert Hughes
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Bealton, Dakota
The Millionaire
1955TV
Bill Franklin
King Richard II
1954Movie
Bolingbroke
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Dr. Jonathan Michael
Omnibus
1952TV
Sergius Saranoff
Paula
1952Movie
John Rogers
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Bolingbroke
Little Women: Jo's Story
1950Movie
Professor Fritz Bhaer
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
David Barlow, Steve Ferris, Steven, at 48
This Side of the Law
1950Movie
David Cummins
The Damned Don't Cry
1950Movie
Martin Blackford
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950TV
Prince Albert
My Foolish Heart
1950Movie
Lewis H. Wengler
Lights Out
1949TV
The Fountainhead
1949Movie
Peter Keating
Studio One
1948TV
Friedrich Bhaer
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
John Wilkes Booth
Design for Death
1948Movie
Narrator
The Voice of the Turtle
1947Movie
Kenneth Bartlett
Magic Town
1947Movie
Hoopendecker
Nora Prentiss
1947Movie
Dr. Richard Talbot
Okay for Sound
1946Movie
The Spiral Staircase
1946Movie
Dr. Parry
Your Next Job
1945Movie
Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945Movie
Briefing Colonel
Youth Runs Wild
1944Movie
Danny Coates
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944Movie
Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
The Curse of the Cat People
1944Movie
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Three Russian Girls
1943Movie
John Hill
Dental Health
1943Movie
Narrator
This Land Is Mine
1943Movie
Paul Martin
Three Cadets
1943Movie
Captain A. Edwards
Forever and a Day
1943Movie
Gates Trimble Pomfret
Hitler's Children
1943Movie
Professor Nichols
Cat People
1942Movie
Oliver Reed
Back Door to Heaven
1939Movie
Attorney (uncredited)
The Garden Murder Case
1936Movie
Woode Swift