Kent Smith
Acting
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
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movieDie Sister, Die!
1978
Dr. Thorne
tvOnce an Eagle
1976
Gen. Jacklyn
tvWonder Woman
1975
Chief Justice Brown
movieThe Disappearance of Flight 412
1974
Gen. Enright
movieThe Cat Creature
1973
Frank Lucas
movieThe Affair
1973
Mr. Patterson
movieLost Horizon
1973
Bill Fergunson
movieThe Female Instinct
1972
Warren Packer
moviePete 'n' Tillie
1972
Father Keating
movieThe Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
Robert Dodd
movieThe Crooked Hearts
1972
James Simpson
tvDelphi Bureau
1972
Prescott
movieAnother Part of the Forest
1972
Simon Isham
movieProbe
1972
Dr. Edward Laurent
movieThe Night Stalker
1972
District Attorney Tom Paine
movieThe Last Child
1971
Gus Iverson
tvNight Gallery
1970
Doctor / Bennett
movieThe Games
1970
Kaverley
movieDeath of a Gunfighter
1969
Andrew Oxley
movieKona Coast
1968
Akamai Barnes
movieAssignment to Kill
1968
Mr. Eversley
movieThe Money Jungle
1967
Paul Kimmel
movieGames
1967
Harry Gordon
movieA Covenant with Death
1967
Oliver Parmalee
tvThe Invaders
1967
Stan Arthur / Edgar Scoville
tvMission: Impossible
1966
Senator William Townsend
movieThe Trouble with Angels
1966
Uncle George Clancy
tvThe F.B.I.
1965
US Attorney Leonard Vanatter / Wendell Price / Commodore Coldwell / Elwood Hayes
tvThe Wild Wild West
1965
Governor Winston E. Brubaker
movieThe Young Lovers
1964
Dr. Shoemaker
Profiles in Courage
1964
Charles Evans Hughes
movieYoungblood Hawke
1964
Paul Winter Sr.
tvDaniel Boone
1964
General Hugh Scott
tvThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Mr. Macy
movieA Distant Trumpet
1964
Secretary of War
tvThe Great Adventure
1963
Gen. Nelson Miles / William Carroll / Grymes
tvThe Outer Limits
1963
Dr. Block / Aabel
movieThe Balcony
1963
General
tvThe Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Clifton Cavanaugh
tvThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Mr. Benner / Jerry O'Hara / Dr. Sam Adamson
movieMoon Pilot
1962
Secretary of the Air Force
movieSusan Slade
1961
Dr. Fain
tvCain's Hundred
1961
Charles Dennis
tvThe Defenders
1961
Dwight Harkavy
tvThe Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
Dexter Willis
tvCheckmate
1960
Ainslee
tvThe Aquanauts
1960
George
movieStrangers When We Meet
1960
Stanley Baxter
tvAdventures in Paradise
1959
Michael Legrange / Crandall
movieThis Earth Is Mine
1959
Francis Fairon
movieThe Mugger
1958
Dr. Pete Graham
movieParty Girl
1958
Jeffrey Stewart
tv77 Sunset Strip
1958
Robert Vincent
tvLawman
1958
Kent Smith
tvNaked City
1958
George Blake
movieThe Badlanders
1958
Cyril Lounsberry
movieImitation General
1958
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
movieSayonara
1957
Gen. Webster
tvSuspicion
1957
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
tvPerry Mason
1957
Dr. Arthur Younger / Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
tvM Squad
1957
Howard Meston
tvWagon Train
1957
Prof. Paul Owens
tvHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
Avery Coombs
movieComanche
1956
Quanah Parker
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Gilbert Hughes
tvGunsmoke
1955
Bealton / Dakota
tvThe Millionaire
1955
Bill Franklin
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953
Dr. Jonathan Michael
tvOmnibus
1952
Sergius Saranoff
moviePaula
1952
John Rogers
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Bolingbroke
movieLittle Women: Jo's Story
1950
Professor Fritz Bhaer
Lux Video Theatre
1950
David Barlow / Steve Ferris / Steven, at 48
movieThis Side of the Law
1950
David Cummins
movieThe Damned Don't Cry
1950
Martin Blackford
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
Prince Albert
movieMy Foolish Heart
1950
Lewis H. Wengler
movieThe Fountainhead
1949
Peter Keating
tvStudio One
1948
Friedrich Bhaer
tvThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
John Wilkes Booth
movieThe Voice of the Turtle
1947
Kenneth Bartlett
movieMagic Town
1947
Hoopendecker
movieNora Prentiss
1947
Dr. Richard Talbot
movieDesign for Death
1947
Narrator
movieThe Spiral Staircase
1946
Dr. Parry
Your Next Job
1945
Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945
Briefing Colonel
movieYouth Runs Wild
1944
Danny Coates
movieResisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
movieThe Curse of the Cat People
1944
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
movieThree Russian Girls
1943
John Hill
movieThis Land Is Mine
1943
Paul Martin
Three Cadets
1943
Captain A. Edwards
movieForever and a Day
1943
Gates Trimble Pomfret
movieHitler's Children
1943
Professor Nichols
movieCat People
1942
Oliver Reed
movieBack Door to Heaven
1939
Attorney (uncredited)
movieThe Garden Murder Case
1936
Woode Swift
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movieTaking Tiger Mountain
1982
Producer