Kent Smith
Known for Acting · 112 credits
- Born
- 1907-03-19
- Died
- 1985-04-23
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Kenneth Smith · Frank Kent Smith
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
TV Shows (50)
Perry Mason
1957
as Dr. Arthur Younger / Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
Matinee Theater
1955
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Prince Albert
Wagon Train
1957
as Prof. Paul Owens
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Senator William Townsend
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Mr. Benner / Jerry O'Hara / Dr. Sam Adamson
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as John Wilkes Booth
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Avery Coombs
Lawman
1958
as Kent Smith
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Clifton Cavanaugh
Naked City
1958
as George Blake
The Wild Wild West
1965
as Governor Winston E. Brubaker
The F.B.I.
1965
as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter / Wendell Price / Commodore Coldwell / Elwood Hayes
Daniel Boone
1964
as General Hugh Scott
Studio One
1948
as Friedrich Bhaer
Rawhide
1959
Lights Out
1949
The Defenders
1961
as Dwight Harkavy
The Outer Limits
1963
as Dr. Block / Aabel
Night Gallery
1970
as Doctor / Bennett
The Invaders
1967
as Stan Arthur / Edgar Scoville
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Robert Vincent
Omnibus
1952
as Sergius Saranoff
Gunsmoke
1955
as Bealton / Dakota
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Adventures in Paradise
1959
as Michael Legrange / Crandall
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Gilbert Hughes
M Squad
1957
as Howard Meston
The Millionaire
1955
as Bill Franklin
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Mr. Macy
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Keats
Felony Squad
1966
Checkmate
1960
as Ainslee
Wonder Woman
1975
as Chief Justice Brown
Bronco
1958
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as David Barlow / Steven, at 48 / Steve Ferris
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Dexter Willis
Cain's Hundred
1961
as Charles Dennis
Arrest and Trial
1963
Suspicion
1957
as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
The Great Adventure
1963
as Gen. Nelson Miles / William Carroll / Grymes
The Roaring 20's
1960
Going My Way
1962
Profiles in Courage
1964
as Charles Evans Hughes
The Aquanauts
1960
as George
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Bolingbroke
General Electric Theater
1953
as Dr. Jonathan Michael
Once an Eagle
1976
as Gen. Jacklyn
Gibbsville
1976
Delphi Bureau
1972
as Prescott
Movies (62)
The Fountainhead
1949
as Peter Keating
The Night Stalker
1972
as District Attorney Tom Paine
Cat People
1942
as Oliver Reed
Sayonara
1957
as Gen. Webster
Party Girl
1958
as Jeffrey Stewart
Lost Horizon
1973
as Bill Fergunson
The Trouble with Angels
1966
as Uncle George Clancy
Strangers When We Meet
1960
as Stanley Baxter
The Badlanders
1958
as Cyril Lounsberry
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
as Andrew Oxley
Paula
1952
as John Rogers
This Land Is Mine
1943
as Paul Martin
The Spiral Staircase
1946
as Dr. Parry
Moon Pilot
1962
as Secretary of the Air Force
Assignment to Kill
1968
as Mr. Eversley
Magic Town
1947
as Hoopendecker
A Distant Trumpet
1964
as Secretary of War
A Covenant with Death
1967
as Oliver Parmalee
The Voice of the Turtle
1947
as Kenneth Bartlett
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
Games
1967
as Harry Gordon
Nora Prentiss
1947
as Dr. Richard Talbot
The Games
1970
as Kaverley
Comanche
1956
as Quanah Parker
The Crooked Hearts
1972
as James Simpson
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
as Robert Dodd
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972
as Father Keating
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974
as Gen. Enright
Another Part of the Forest
1972
as Simon Isham
Youngblood Hawke
1964
as Paul Winter Sr.
Forever and a Day
1943
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
My Foolish Heart
1950
as Lewis H. Wengler
The Female Instinct
1972
as Warren Packer
Hitler's Children
1943
as Professor Nichols
Susan Slade
1961
as Dr. Fain
Probe
1972
as Dr. Edward Laurent
This Earth Is Mine
1959
as Francis Fairon
The Garden Murder Case
1936
as Woode Swift
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
as Martin Blackford
This Side of the Law
1950
as David Cummins
How Awful About Allan
1970
as Raymond
The Curse of the Cat People
1944
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Back Door to Heaven
1939
as Attorney (uncredited)
The Cat Creature
1973
as Frank Lucas
The Affair
1973
as Mr. Patterson
The Money Jungle
1967
as Paul Kimmel
Okay for Sound
1946
The Last Child
1971
as Gus Iverson
The Mugger
1958
as Dr. Pete Graham
Imitation General
1958
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
The Young Lovers
1964
as Dr. Shoemaker
Kona Coast
1968
as Akamai Barnes
The Balcony
1963
as General
Three Russian Girls
1943
as John Hill
Your Next Job
1945
as Instructor Lieutenant
Little Women: Jo's Story
1950
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
Design for Death
1947
as Narrator
Die Sister, Die!
1978
as Dr. Thorne
Youth Runs Wild
1944
as Danny Coates
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945
as Briefing Colonel
Three Cadets
1943
as Captain A. Edwards
Dental Health
1943
as Narrator
About Kent Smith
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… With 112 credits spanning from 1936 to 1978, Kent Smith has appeared in 62 films and 50 TV shows.
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- The Fountainhead (1949) — as Peter Keating
- The Night Stalker (1972) — as District Attorney Tom Paine
- Cat People (1942) — as Oliver Reed
- Sayonara (1957) — as Gen. Webster
- Party Girl (1958) — as Jeffrey Stewart
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