Kent Smith
Born
March 19, 1907
Died
April 23, 1985 (78 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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
Die Sister, Die!
Dr. Thorne
1978
Once an Eagle
Gen. Jacklyn · (7 episodes)
1976
Gibbsville
(1 episode)
1976
Wonder Woman
Chief Justice Brown · (1 episode)
1975
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Gen. Enright
1974
The Cat Creature
Frank Lucas
1973
The Affair
Mr. Patterson
1973
Lost Horizon
Bill Fergunson
1973
The Female Instinct
Warren Packer
1972
Pete 'n' Tillie
Father Keating
1972
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Robert Dodd
1972
The Crooked Hearts
James Simpson
1972
Another Part of the Forest
Simon Isham
1972
The Streets of San Francisco
(1 episode)
1972
Probe
Dr. Edward Laurent
1972
The Night Stalker
District Attorney Tom Paine
1972
The Last Child
Gus Iverson
1971
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Keats · (1 episode)
1971
Night Gallery
Doctor · (1 episode)
1970
Night Gallery
Bennett · (1 episode)
1970
How Awful About Allan
Raymond
1970
The Games
Kaverley
1970
Death of a Gunfighter
Andrew Oxley
1969
Kona Coast
Akamai Barnes
1968
Assignment to Kill
Mr. Eversley
1968
The Money Jungle
Paul Kimmel
1967
Games
Harry Gordon
1967
A Covenant with Death
Oliver Parmalee
1967
The Invaders
Stan Arthur · (27 episodes)
1967
The Invaders
Edgar Scoville · (12 episodes)
1967
Mission: Impossible
Senator William Townsend · (1 episode)
1966
Felony Squad
(1 episode)
1966
The Trouble with Angels
Uncle George Clancy
1966
The F.B.I.
US Attorney Leonard Vanatter · (1 episode)
1965
The F.B.I.
Wendell Price · (1 episode)
1965
The F.B.I.
Commodore Coldwell · (1 episode)
1965
The F.B.I.
Elwood Hayes · (1 episode)
1965
The Wild Wild West
Governor Winston E. Brubaker · (1 episode)
1965
The Young Lovers
Dr. Shoemaker
1964
Profiles in Courage
Charles Evans Hughes · (1 episode)
1964
Youngblood Hawke
Paul Winter Sr.
1964
Daniel Boone
General Hugh Scott · (1 episode)
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mr. Macy · (1 episode)
1964
A Distant Trumpet
Secretary of War
1964
The Great Adventure
Gen. Nelson Miles · (2 episodes)
1963
The Great Adventure
William Carroll · (1 episode)
1963
The Great Adventure
Grymes · (1 episode)
1963
The Outer Limits
Dr. Block · (1 episode)
1963
The Outer Limits
Aabel · (1 episode)
1963
Arrest and Trial
(1 episode)
1963
The Balcony
General
1963
Going My Way
(1 episode)
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
Clifton Cavanaugh · (1 episode)
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mr. Benner · (1 episode)
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Jerry O'Hara · (1 episode)
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Dr. Sam Adamson · (1 episode)
1962
Moon Pilot
Secretary of the Air Force
1962
Susan Slade
Dr. Fain
1961
Cain's Hundred
Charles Dennis · (1 episode)
1961
The Defenders
Dwight Harkavy · (1 episode)
1961
The Roaring 20's
(1 episode)
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Dexter Willis · (1 episode)
1960
Checkmate
Ainslee · (1 episode)
1960
The Aquanauts
George · (1 episode)
1960
Strangers When We Meet
Stanley Baxter
1960
Adventures in Paradise
Michael Legrange · (1 episode)
1959
Adventures in Paradise
Crandall · (1 episode)
1959
This Earth Is Mine
Francis Fairon
1959
Rawhide
(0 episode)
1959
The Mugger
Dr. Pete Graham
1958
Party Girl
Jeffrey Stewart
1958
77 Sunset Strip
Robert Vincent · (1 episode)
1958
Lawman
Kent Smith · (1 episode)
1958
Naked City
George Blake · (1 episode)
1958
Bronco
(1 episode)
1958
The Badlanders
Cyril Lounsberry
1958
Imitation General
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
1958
Sayonara
Gen. Webster
1957
Suspicion
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist · (2 episodes)
1957
Perry Mason
Dr. Arthur Younger · (1 episode)
1957
Perry Mason
Dr. Curtis Metcalfe · (1 episode)
1957
M Squad
Howard Meston · (1 episode)
1957
Wagon Train
Prof. Paul Owens · (1 episode)
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
(2 episodes)
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Avery Coombs · (1 episode)
1957
Comanche
Quanah Parker
1956
Matinee Theater
(1 episode)
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gilbert Hughes · (1 episode)
1955
Gunsmoke
Bealton · (1 episode)
1955
Gunsmoke
Dakota · (1 episode)
1955
The Millionaire
Bill Franklin · (1 episode)
1955
General Electric Theater
Dr. Jonathan Michael · (2 episodes)
1953
Paula
John Rogers
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bolingbroke · (1 episode)
1951
Little Women: Jo's Story
Professor Fritz Bhaer
1950
Lux Video Theatre
David Barlow · (1 episode)
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Steve Ferris · (1 episode)
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Steven, at 48 · (1 episode)
1950
This Side of the Law
David Cummins
1950
The Damned Don't Cry
Martin Blackford
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
Prince Albert · (1 episode)
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
(3 episodes)
1950
My Foolish Heart
Lewis H. Wengler
1950
Lights Out
(1 episode)
1949
The Fountainhead
Peter Keating
1949
Studio One
Friedrich Bhaer · (2 episodes)
1948
Studio One
(1 episode)
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
John Wilkes Booth · (1 episode)
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
(2 episodes)
1948
Design for Death
Narrator
1948
The Voice of the Turtle
Kenneth Bartlett
1947
Magic Town
Hoopendecker
1947
Nora Prentiss
Dr. Richard Talbot
1947
Okay for Sound
1946
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Parry
1946
Your Next Job
Instructor Lieutenant
1945
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Briefing Colonel
1945
Youth Runs Wild
Danny Coates
1944
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
1944
The Curse of the Cat People
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
1944
Three Russian Girls
John Hill
1943
Dental Health
Narrator
1943
This Land Is Mine
Paul Martin
1943
Three Cadets
Captain A. Edwards
1943
Forever and a Day
Gates Trimble Pomfret
1943
Hitler's Children
Professor Nichols
1943
Cat People
Oliver Reed
1942
Back Door to Heaven
Attorney (uncredited)
1939
The Garden Murder Case
Woode Swift
1936