Kent Smith
64 movies · 48 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 19, 1907
- Died
- Apr 23, 1985 (age 78)
- 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.
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Kent Smith: movies and TV shows
Acting (111)
- 1978 Die Sister, Die!
as Dr. Thorne
- 1976
- 1975
- 1974 The Disappearance of Flight 412
as Gen. Enright
- 1973 The Cat Creature
as Frank Lucas
- 1973 The Affair
as Mr. Patterson
- 1973 Lost Horizon
as Bill Fergunson
- 1972 The Female Instinct
as Warren Packer
- 1972 Pete 'n' Tillie
as Father Keating
- 1972 The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Robert Dodd
- 1972 The Crooked Hearts
as James Simpson
- 1972
- 1972 Another Part of the Forest
as Simon Isham
- 1972
- 1972 Probe
as Dr. Edward Laurent
- 1972 The Night Stalker
as District Attorney Tom Paine
- 1971 The Last Child
as Gus Iverson
- 1971
- 1970
- 1970 How Awful About Allan
as Raymond
- 1970 The Games
as Kaverley
- 1969 Death of a Gunfighter
as Andrew Oxley
- 1968 Kona Coast
as Akamai Barnes
- 1968 Assignment to Kill
as Mr. Eversley
- 1967 The Money Jungle
as Paul Kimmel
- 1967 Games
as Harry Gordon
- 1967 A Covenant with Death
as Oliver Parmalee
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966 The Trouble with Angels
as Uncle George Clancy
- 1965 The F.B.I. · TV
as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter / Wendell Price / Commodore Coldwell / Elwood Hayes · 4 episodes
- 1965
- 1964 The Young Lovers
as Dr. Shoemaker
- 1964
- 1964 Youngblood Hawke
as Paul Winter Sr.
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 A Distant Trumpet
as Secretary of War
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 The Balcony
as General
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 Moon Pilot
as Secretary of the Air Force
- 1961 Susan Slade
as Dr. Fain
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Strangers When We Meet
as Stanley Baxter
- 1959
- 1959 This Earth Is Mine
as Francis Fairon
- 1959 Rawhide · TV
- 1958 The Mugger
as Dr. Pete Graham
- 1958 Party Girl
as Jeffrey Stewart
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 The Badlanders
as Cyril Lounsberry
- 1958 Imitation General
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
- 1957 Sayonara
as Gen. Webster
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1956 Comanche
as Quanah Parker
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954 King Richard II
as Bolingbroke
- 1953
- 1952 Paula
as John Rogers
- 1951
- 1950 Little Women: Jo's Story
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
- 1950
- 1950 This Side of the Law
as David Cummins
- 1950 The Damned Don't Cry
as Martin Blackford
- 1950
- 1950 My Foolish Heart
as Lewis H. Wengler
- 1949 The Fountainhead
as Peter Keating
- 1948
- 1948
- 1948 Design for Death
as Narrator
- 1947 The Voice of the Turtle
as Kenneth Bartlett
- 1947 Magic Town
as Hoopendecker
- 1947 Nora Prentiss
as Dr. Richard Talbot
- 1946
- 1946 The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Parry
- 1945 Your Next Job
as Instructor Lieutenant
- 1945 Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
as Briefing Colonel
- 1944 Youth Runs Wild
as Danny Coates
- 1944 Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
- 1944 The Curse of the Cat People
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
- 1943 Three Russian Girls
as John Hill
- 1943 Dental Health
as Narrator
- 1943 This Land Is Mine
as Paul Martin
- 1943 Three Cadets
as Captain A. Edwards
- 1943 Forever and a Day
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
- 1943 Hitler's Children
as Professor Nichols
- 1942 Cat People
as Oliver Reed
- 1939 Back Door to Heaven
as Attorney (uncredited)
- 1936 The Garden Murder Case
as Woode Swift
Behind the camera (1)
- 1982 Taking Tiger Mountain
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1952 Omnibus
1 episode
- 1949 Lights Out
1 episode