Kent Smith

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1907-03-19

Deathday 1985-04-23 (78 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Kenneth Smith, Frank Kent Smith

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. 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

Actor

1978
Die Sister, Die!

as Dr. Thorne

1976
Once an Eagle

as Gen. Jacklyn

1975
Wonder Woman

as Chief Justice Brown

1973
The Cat Creature

as Frank Lucas

1973
The Affair

as Mr. Patterson

1973
Lost Horizon

as Bill Fergunson

1973
The Snoop Sisters

as Warren Packer

1972
The Snoop Sisters

as Warren Packer

1972
Pete 'n' Tillie

as Father Keating

1972
1972
The Crooked Hearts

as James Simpson

1972
1972
Probe

as Dr. Edward Laurent

1972
The Night Stalker

as District Attorney Tom Paine

1971
The Last Child

as Gus Iverson

1970
1970
The Games

as Kaverley

1970
Night Gallery

as Doctor

1970
Night Gallery

as Bennett

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
The Invaders

as Stan Arthur

1967
The Invaders

as Edgar Scoville

1966
The Trouble with Angels

as Uncle George Clancy

1966
Mission: Impossible

as Senator William Townsend

1965
The F.B.I.

as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter

1965
The F.B.I.

as Wendell Price

1965
The F.B.I.

as Commodore Coldwell

1965
The F.B.I.

as Elwood Hayes

1965
The Wild Wild West

as Governor Winston E. Brubaker

1964
The Young Lovers

as Dr. Shoemaker

1964
Youngblood Hawke

as Paul Winter Sr.

1964
A Distant Trumpet

as Secretary of War

1964
Profiles in Courage

as Charles Evans Hughes

1964
Daniel Boone

as General Hugh Scott

1964
1963
The Balcony

as General

1963
The Great Adventure

as Gen. Nelson Miles

1963
The Great Adventure

as William Carroll

1963
1963
The Outer Limits

as Dr. Block

1963
1962
Moon Pilot

as Secretary of the Air Force

1962
The Beverly Hillbillies

as Clifton Cavanaugh

1962
1962
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Dr. Sam Adamson

1961
Susan Slade

as Dr. Fain

1961
Cain's Hundred

as Charles Dennis

1961
The Defenders

as Dwight Harkavy

1960
Strangers When We Meet

as Stanley Baxter

1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Dexter Willis

1960
Checkmate

as Ainslee

1960
The Aquanauts

as George

1959
This Earth Is Mine

as Francis Fairon

1959
Adventures in Paradise

as Michael Legrange

1959
1958
The Mugger

as Dr. Pete Graham

1958
Party Girl

as Jeffrey Stewart

1958
The Badlanders

as Cyril Lounsberry

1958
Imitation General

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane

1958
77 Sunset Strip

as Robert Vincent

1958
Lawman

as Kent Smith

1958
Naked City

as George Blake

1958
1957
Sayonara

as Gen. Webster

1957
Suspicion

as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist

1957
Perry Mason

as Dr. Arthur Younger

1957
Perry Mason

as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe

1957
M Squad

as Howard Meston

1957
Wagon Train

as Prof. Paul Owens

1957
Have Gun, Will Travel

as Avery Coombs

1956
Comanche

as Quanah Parker

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Gilbert Hughes

1955
Gunsmoke

as Bealton

1955
Gunsmoke

as Dakota

1955
The Millionaire

as Bill Franklin

1953
General Electric Theater

as Dr. Jonathan Michael

1952
Paula

as John Rogers

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Bolingbroke

1950
Little Women: Jo's Story

as Professor Fritz Bhaer

1950
This Side of the Law

as David Cummins

1950
The Damned Don't Cry

as Martin Blackford

1950
My Foolish Heart

as Lewis H. Wengler

1950
Lux Video Theatre

as David Barlow

1950
Lux Video Theatre

as Steve Ferris

1950
Lux Video Theatre

as Steven, at 48

1950
1949
The Fountainhead

as Peter Keating

1948
Design for Death

as Narrator

1948
Studio One

as Friedrich Bhaer

1948
The Philco Television Playhouse

as John Wilkes Booth

1947
The Voice of the Turtle

as Kenneth Bartlett

1947
Magic Town

as Hoopendecker

1947
Nora Prentiss

as Dr. Richard Talbot aka Robert Thompson

1946
1945
Your Next Job

as Instructor Lieutenant

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

Producer

1982