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Kent Smith
Actor

Kent Smith

19 Mar 1907Born
23 Apr 1985Died
78Age at death
112Credits

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.

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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.

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Filmography

The 80 most recent of 112 credits.

  1. 1978Die Sister, Die!Film: Dr. Thorne
  2. 1976Once an EagleSeries: Gen. Jacklyn (7 episodes)
  3. 1975Wonder WomanSeries: Chief Justice Brown (1 episode)
  4. 1974The Disappearance of Flight 412Film: Gen. Enright
  5. 1973The Cat CreatureFilm: Frank Lucas
  6. 1973The AffairFilm: Mr. Patterson
  7. 1973Lost HorizonFilm: Bill Fergunson
  8. 1972The Female InstinctFilm: Warren Packer
  9. 1972Pete 'n' TillieFilm: Father Keating
  10. 1972The Judge and Jake WylerFilm: Robert Dodd
  11. 1972The Crooked HeartsFilm: James Simpson
  12. 1972Delphi BureauSeries: Prescott (1 episode)
  13. 1972Another Part of the ForestFilm: Simon Isham
  14. 1972The Streets of San FranciscoSeries (1 episode)
  15. 1972ProbeFilm: Dr. Edward Laurent
  16. 1972The Night StalkerFilm: District Attorney Tom Paine
  17. 1971The Last ChildFilm: Gus Iverson
  18. 1971Owen Marshall: Counselor at LawSeries: Keats (1 episode)
  19. 1970Night GallerySeries: Doctor, Bennett (1 episode)
  20. 1970How Awful About AllanFilm: Raymond
  21. 1970The GamesFilm: Kaverley
  22. 1969Death of a GunfighterFilm: Andrew Oxley
  23. 1968Kona CoastFilm: Akamai Barnes
  24. 1968Assignment to KillFilm: Mr. Eversley
  25. 1967The Money JungleFilm: Paul Kimmel
  26. 1967GamesFilm: Harry Gordon
  27. 1967A Covenant with DeathFilm: Oliver Parmalee
  28. 1967The InvadersSeries: Stan Arthur, Edgar Scoville (27 episodes)
  29. 1966Mission: ImpossibleSeries: Senator William Townsend (1 episode)
  30. 1966Felony SquadSeries (1 episode)
  31. 1966The Trouble with AngelsFilm: Uncle George Clancy
  32. 1965The F.B.I.Series: US Attorney Leonard Vanatter, Wendell Price, Commodore Coldwell, Elwood Hayes (1 episode)
  33. 1965The Wild Wild WestSeries: Governor Winston E. Brubaker (1 episode)
  34. 1964The Young LoversFilm: Dr. Shoemaker
  35. 1964Profiles in CourageSeries: Charles Evans Hughes (1 episode)
  36. 1964Youngblood HawkeFilm: Paul Winter Sr.
  37. 1964Daniel BooneSeries: General Hugh Scott (1 episode)
  38. 1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Series: Mr. Macy (1 episode)
  39. 1964A Distant TrumpetFilm: Secretary of War
  40. 1963The Great AdventureSeries: Gen. Nelson Miles, William Carroll, Grymes (2 episodes)
  41. 1963The Outer LimitsSeries: Dr. Block, Aabel (1 episode)
  42. 1963Arrest and TrialSeries (1 episode)
  43. 1963The BalconyFilm: General
  44. 1962Going My WaySeries (1 episode)
  45. 1962The Beverly HillbilliesSeries: Clifton Cavanaugh (1 episode)
  46. 1962The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries: Mr. Benner, Jerry O'Hara, Dr. Sam Adamson (1 episode)
  47. 1962Moon PilotFilm: Secretary of the Air Force
  48. 1961Susan SladeFilm: Dr. Fain
  49. 1961Cain's HundredSeries: Charles Dennis (1 episode)
  50. 1961The DefendersSeries: Dwight Harkavy (1 episode)
  51. 1960The Roaring 20'sSeries (1 episode)
  52. 1960The Barbara Stanwyck ShowSeries: Dexter Willis (1 episode)
  53. 1960CheckmateSeries: Ainslee (1 episode)
  54. 1960The AquanautsSeries: George (1 episode)
  55. 1960Strangers When We MeetFilm: Stanley Baxter
  56. 1959Adventures in ParadiseSeries: Michael Legrange, Crandall (1 episode)
  57. 1959This Earth Is MineFilm: Francis Fairon
  58. 1959RawhideSeries
  59. 1958The MuggerFilm: Dr. Pete Graham
  60. 1958Party GirlFilm: Jeffrey Stewart
  61. 195877 Sunset StripSeries: Robert Vincent (1 episode)
  62. 1958LawmanSeries: Kent Smith (1 episode)
  63. 1958Naked CitySeries: George Blake (1 episode)
  64. 1958BroncoSeries (1 episode)
  65. 1958The BadlandersFilm: Cyril Lounsberry
  66. 1958Imitation GeneralFilm: Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
  67. 1957SayonaraFilm: Gen. Webster
  68. 1957SuspicionSeries: Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist (2 episodes)
  69. 1957Perry MasonSeries: Dr. Arthur Younger, Dr. Curtis Metcalfe (1 episode)
  70. 1957M SquadSeries: Howard Meston (1 episode)
  71. 1957Wagon TrainSeries: Prof. Paul Owens (1 episode)
  72. 1957Have Gun, Will TravelSeries: Avery Coombs (2 episodes)
  73. 1956ComancheFilm: Quanah Parker
  74. 1955Matinee TheaterSeries (1 episode)
  75. 1955CrossroadsSeries (1 episode)
  76. 1955Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries: Gilbert Hughes (1 episode)
  77. 1955GunsmokeSeries: Bealton, Dakota (1 episode)
  78. 1955The MillionaireSeries: Bill Franklin (1 episode)
  79. 1954King Richard IIFilm: Bolingbroke
  80. 1953General Electric TheaterSeries: Dr. Jonathan Michael (2 episodes)

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