Kent Smith
Acting
Born: March 19, 1907 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: April 23, 1985 (aged 78)
Highest Rated
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
Cat People
1942
Wonder Woman
1975
Mission: Impossible
1966
The Spiral Staircase
1946
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Fountainhead
1949
The Outer Limits
1963
The Curse of the Cat People
1944
Sayonara
1957
Perry Mason
1957
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Night Stalker
1972
Photos (1)
Movies (58)
Cat People
Oliver Reed
The Night Stalker
District Attorney Tom Paine
Party Girl
Jeffrey Stewart
The Fountainhead
Peter Keating
Death of a Gunfighter
Andrew Oxley
Sayonara
Gen. Webster
The Curse of the Cat People
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
A Distant Trumpet
Secretary of War
The Trouble with Angels
Uncle George Clancy
Comanche
Quanah Parker
Lost Horizon
Bill Fergunson
Magic Town
Hoopendecker
The Badlanders
Cyril Lounsberry
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Parry
The Damned Don't Cry
Martin Blackford
Moon Pilot
Secretary of the Air Force
Forever and a Day
Gates Trimble Pomfret
Probe
Dr. Edward Laurent
This Side of the Law
David Cummins
Paula
John Rogers
Strangers When We Meet
Stanley Baxter
Assignment to Kill
Mr. Eversley
Youngblood Hawke
Paul Winter Sr.
This Land Is Mine
Paul Martin
Susan Slade
Dr. Fain
Nora Prentiss
Dr. Richard Talbot
My Foolish Heart
Lewis H. Wengler
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
The Cat Creature
Frank Lucas
The Last Child
Gus Iverson
Three Russian Girls
John Hill
Games
Harry Gordon
This Earth Is Mine
Francis Fairon
A Covenant with Death
Oliver Parmalee
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Robert Dodd
Pete 'n' Tillie
Father Keating
Hitler's Children
Professor Nichols
The Games
Kaverley
The Affair
Mr. Patterson
How Awful About Allan
Raymond
Back Door to Heaven
Attorney (uncredited)
The Voice of the Turtle
Kenneth Bartlett
The Female Instinct
Warren Packer
Another Part of the Forest
Simon Isham
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Gen. Enright
Imitation General
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
The Crooked Hearts
James Simpson
The Balcony
General
Kona Coast
Akamai Barnes
The Mugger
Dr. Pete Graham
Die Sister, Die!
Dr. Thorne
The Money Jungle
Paul Kimmel
Okay for Sound
1946
The Garden Murder Case
Woode Swift
Youth Runs Wild
Danny Coates
Little Women: Jo's Story
Professor Fritz Bhaer
Design for Death
Narrator
The Young Lovers
Dr. Shoemaker
TV Shows (65)
Perry Mason
Dr. Arthur Younger · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Dr. Curtis Metcalfe · 1 eps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mr. Benner · 1 eps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Jerry O'Hara · 1 eps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Dr. Sam Adamson · 1 eps
Wagon Train
Prof. Paul Owens · 1 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
Prince Albert · 1 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
3 eps
The Wild Wild West
Governor Winston E. Brubaker · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
2 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
Avery Coombs · 1 eps
The Beverly Hillbillies
Clifton Cavanaugh · 1 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
John Wilkes Booth · 1 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
2 eps
Mission: Impossible
Senator William Townsend · 1 eps
Rawhide
1959
Daniel Boone
General Hugh Scott · 1 eps
Matinee Theater
1 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
1 eps
Studio One
Friedrich Bhaer · 2 eps
Studio One
1 eps
Lawman
Kent Smith · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
US Attorney Leonard Vanatter · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Wendell Price · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Commodore Coldwell · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Elwood Hayes · 1 eps
The Outer Limits
Dr. Block · 1 eps
The Outer Limits
Aabel · 1 eps
Night Gallery
Doctor · 1 eps
Night Gallery
Bennett · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Bealton · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Dakota · 1 eps
Naked City
George Blake · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gilbert Hughes · 1 eps
The Defenders
Dwight Harkavy · 1 eps
The Invaders
Stan Arthur · 27 eps
The Invaders
Edgar Scoville · 12 eps
Lights Out
1 eps
The Millionaire
Bill Franklin · 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mr. Macy · 1 eps
Adventures in Paradise
Michael Legrange · 1 eps
Adventures in Paradise
Crandall · 1 eps
Omnibus
Sergius Saranoff · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Robert Vincent · 1 eps
Wonder Woman
Chief Justice Brown · 1 eps
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Keats · 1 eps
Checkmate
Ainslee · 1 eps
Felony Squad
1 eps
Bronco
1 eps
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Dexter Willis · 1 eps
M Squad
Howard Meston · 1 eps
Suspicion
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist · 2 eps
Arrest and Trial
1 eps
The Roaring 20's
1 eps
The Great Adventure
Gen. Nelson Miles · 2 eps
The Great Adventure
William Carroll · 1 eps
The Great Adventure
Grymes · 1 eps
Crossroads
1 eps
Cain's Hundred
Charles Dennis · 1 eps
The Aquanauts
George · 1 eps
Once an Eagle
Gen. Jacklyn · 7 eps
Going My Way
1 eps
General Electric Theater
Dr. Jonathan Michael · 2 eps
Delphi Bureau
Prescott · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bolingbroke · 1 eps
