1907-03-19 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.
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Die Sister, Die! | Dr. Thorne | 1978-12-01 |
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The Disappearance of Flight 412 | Gen. Enright | 1974-10-01 |
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The Cat Creature | Frank Lucas | 1973-12-11 |
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The Affair | Mr. Patterson | 1973-11-20 |
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Lost Horizon | Bill Fergunson | 1973-03-14 |
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Probe | Dr. Edward Laurent | 1972-02-21 |
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The Night Stalker | District Attorney Tom Paine | 1972-01-11 |
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The Judge and Jake Wyler | Robert Dodd | 1972-12-02 |
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The Crooked Hearts | James Simpson | 1972-11-08 |
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The Female Instinct | Warren Packer | 1972-12-18 |
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Pete 'n' Tillie | Father Keating | 1972-12-17 |
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Another Part of the Forest | Simon Isham | 1972-10-02 |
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The Last Child | Gus Iverson | 1971-10-05 |
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The Games | Kaverley | 1970-08-07 |
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How Awful About Allan | Raymond | 1970-09-22 |
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Death of a Gunfighter | Andrew Oxley | 1969-05-08 |
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Assignment to Kill | Mr. Eversley | 1968-05-01 |
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Kona Coast | Akamai Barnes | 1968-05-01 |
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A Covenant with Death | Oliver Parmalee | 1967-02-15 |
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Games | Harry Gordon | 1967-09-17 |
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The Money Jungle | Paul Kimmel | 1967-12-15 |
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The Trouble with Angels | Uncle George Clancy | 1966-03-29 |
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A Distant Trumpet | Secretary of War | 1964-05-20 |
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The Young Lovers | Dr. Shoemaker | 1964-11-12 |
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Youngblood Hawke | Paul Winter Sr. | 1964-11-04 |
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The Balcony | General | 1963-03-21 |
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Moon Pilot | Secretary of the Air Force | 1962-04-05 |
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Susan Slade | Dr. Fain | 1961-11-08 |
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Strangers When We Meet | Stanley Baxter | 1960-06-29 |
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This Earth Is Mine | Francis Fairon | 1959-07-08 |
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The Mugger | Dr. Pete Graham | 1958-11-01 |
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The Badlanders | Cyril Lounsberry | 1958-09-03 |
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Imitation General | Brig. Gen. Charles Lane | 1958-08-20 |
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Party Girl | Jeffrey Stewart | 1958-10-28 |
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Sayonara | Gen. Webster | 1957-12-25 |
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Comanche | Quanah Parker | 1956-03-01 |
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Paula | John Rogers | 1952-05-15 |
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This Side of the Law | David Cummins | 1950-06-17 |
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The Damned Don't Cry | Martin Blackford | 1950-05-13 |
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Little Women: Jo's Story | Professor Fritz Bhaer | 1950-12-25 |
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My Foolish Heart | Lewis H. Wengler | 1950-01-19 |
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The Fountainhead | Peter Keating | 1949-06-25 |
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Design for Death | Narrator | 1948-06-10 |
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Nora Prentiss | Dr. Richard Talbot | 1947-02-22 |
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Magic Town | Hoopendecker | 1947-10-07 |
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The Voice of the Turtle | Kenneth Bartlett | 1947-12-25 |
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The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Parry | 1946-01-26 |
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Okay for Sound | 1946-09-07 | |
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Your Next Job | Instructor Lieutenant | 1945-12-09 |
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures | Briefing Colonel | 1945-12-03 |
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The Curse of the Cat People | Oliver 'Ollie' Reed | 1944-04-01 |
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Youth Runs Wild | Danny Coates | 1944-09-01 |
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation | Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis | 1944-08-01 |
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Dental Health | Narrator | 1943-11-01 |
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Three Cadets | Captain A. Edwards | 1943-01-26 |
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Hitler's Children | Professor Nichols | 1943-01-06 |
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Three Russian Girls | John Hill | 1943-12-30 |
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Forever and a Day | Gates Trimble Pomfret | 1943-01-21 |
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This Land Is Mine | Paul Martin | 1943-05-07 |
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Cat People | Oliver Reed | 1942-12-05 |
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Back Door to Heaven | Attorney (uncredited) | 1939-04-19 |
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The Garden Murder Case | Woode Swift | 1936-02-21 |
