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
as Dr. Thorne
as Gen. Jacklyn
as Chief Justice Brown
as Gen. Enright
as Frank Lucas
as Mr. Patterson
as Bill Fergunson
as Warren Packer
as Warren Packer
as Father Keating
as Robert Dodd
as James Simpson
as Simon Isham
as Dr. Edward Laurent
as District Attorney Tom Paine
as Gus Iverson
as Keats
as Raymond
as Kaverley
as Doctor
as Bennett
as Andrew Oxley
as Akamai Barnes
as Mr. Eversley
as Paul Kimmel
as Harry Gordon
as Oliver Parmalee
as Stan Arthur
as Edgar Scoville
as Uncle George Clancy
as Senator William Townsend
as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
as Wendell Price
as Commodore Coldwell
as Elwood Hayes
as Governor Winston E. Brubaker
as Dr. Shoemaker
as Paul Winter Sr.
as Secretary of War
as Charles Evans Hughes
as General Hugh Scott
as Mr. Macy
as General
as Gen. Nelson Miles
as William Carroll
as Grymes
as Dr. Block
as Aabel
as Secretary of the Air Force
as Clifton Cavanaugh
as Mr. Benner
as Jerry O'Hara
as Dr. Sam Adamson
as Dr. Fain
as Charles Dennis
as Dwight Harkavy
as Stanley Baxter
as Dexter Willis
as Ainslee
as George
as Francis Fairon
as Michael Legrange
as Crandall
as Dr. Pete Graham
as Jeffrey Stewart
as Cyril Lounsberry
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
as Robert Vincent
as Kent Smith
as George Blake
as Gen. Webster
as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
as Dr. Arthur Younger
as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
as Howard Meston
as Prof. Paul Owens
as Avery Coombs
as Quanah Parker
as Gilbert Hughes
as Bealton
as Dakota
as Bill Franklin
as Dr. Jonathan Michael
as John Rogers
as Bolingbroke
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
as David Cummins
as Martin Blackford
as Lewis H. Wengler
as David Barlow
as Steve Ferris
as Steven, at 48
as Prince Albert
as Peter Keating
as Narrator
as Friedrich Bhaer
as John Wilkes Booth
as Kenneth Bartlett
as Hoopendecker
as Dr. Richard Talbot
as Dr. Parry
as Instructor Lieutenant
as Briefing Colonel
as Danny Coates
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
as John Hill
as Narrator
as Paul Martin
as Captain A. Edwards
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
as Professor Nichols
as Oliver Reed
as Attorney (uncredited)
as Woode Swift
Producer
as Producer