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person_profile-Kent Smith

Kent Smith Died at age: 78

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Kent Smith

Date of Birth:

Mar 19, 1907

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 23, 1985

Biography of

Kent Smith

    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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Filmography of

Kent Smith

Found 57 Movies in total

Die Sister, Die!

Dr. Thorne ( Actor )

... 1978

The Disappearance of Flight 412

Gen. Enright ( Actor )

... 1974

The Cat Creature

Frank Lucas ( Actor )

... 1973

The Affair

Mr. Patterson ( Actor )

... 1973

Lost Horizon

Bill Fergunson ( Actor )

... 1973

The Snoop Sisters

Warren Packer ( Actor )

... 1972

Pete 'n' Tillie

Father Keating ( Actor )

... 1972

The Judge and Jake Wyler

Robert Dodd ( Actor )

... 1972

The Crooked Hearts

James Simpson ( Actor )

... 1972

Another Part of the Forest

Simon Isham ( Actor )

... 1972

Probe

Dr. Edward Laurent ( Actor )

... 1972

The Night Stalker

District Attorney Tom Paine ( Actor )

... 1972

The Last Child

Gus Iverson ( Actor )

... 1971

How Awful About Allan

Raymond ( Actor )

... 1970

The Games

Kaverley ( Actor )

... 1970

Death of a Gunfighter

Andrew Oxley ( Actor )

... 1969

Kona Coast

Akamai Barnes ( Actor )

... 1968

Assignment to Kill

Mr. Eversley ( Actor )

... 1968

The Money Jungle

Paul Kimmel ( Actor )

... 1967

Games

Harry Gordon ( Actor )

... 1967

A Covenant with Death

Oliver Parmalee ( Actor )

... 1967

The Trouble with Angels

Uncle George Clancy ( Actor )

... 1966

The Young Lovers

Dr. Shoemaker ( Actor )

... 1964

Youngblood Hawke

Paul Winter Sr. ( Actor )

... 1964

A Distant Trumpet

Secretary of War ( Actor )

... 1964

The Balcony

General ( Actor )

... 1963

Moon Pilot

Secretary of the Air Force ( Actor )

... 1962

Susan Slade

Dr. Fain ( Actor )

... 1961

Strangers When We Meet

Stanley Baxter ( Actor )

... 1960

This Earth Is Mine

Francis Fairon ( Actor )

... 1959

The Mugger

Dr. Pete Graham ( Actor )

... 1958

Party Girl

Jeffrey Stewart ( Actor )

... 1958

The Badlanders

Cyril Lounsberry ( Actor )

... 1958

Imitation General

Brig. Gen. Charles Lane ( Actor )

... 1958

Sayonara

Gen. Webster ( Actor )

... 1957

Comanche

Quanah Parker ( Actor )

... 1956

Paula

John Rogers ( Actor )

... 1952

Little Women: Jo's Story

Professor Fritz Bhaer ( Actor )

... 1950

This Side of the Law

David Cummins ( Actor )

... 1950

The Damned Don't Cry

Martin Blackford ( Actor )

... 1950

My Foolish Heart

Lewis H. Wengler ( Actor )

... 1950

The Fountainhead

Peter Keating ( Actor )

... 1949

Design for Death

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1948

The Voice of the Turtle

Kenneth Bartlett ( Actor )

... 1947

Magic Town

Hoopendecker ( Actor )

... 1947

Nora Prentiss

Dr. Richard Talbot aka Robert Thompson ( Actor )

... 1947

The Spiral Staircase

Dr. Parry ( Actor )

... 1946

Youth Runs Wild

Danny Coates ( Actor )

... 1944

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis ( Actor )

... 1944

The Curse of the Cat People

Oliver 'Ollie' Reed ( Actor )

... 1944

Three Russian Girls

John Hill ( Actor )

... 1943

This Land Is Mine

Paul Martin ( Actor )

... 1943

Forever and a Day

Gates Trimble Pomfret ( Actor )

... 1943

Hitler's Children

Professor Nichols ( Actor )

... 1943

Cat People

Oliver Reed ( Actor )

... 1942

Back Door to Heaven

Attorney (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

The Garden Murder Case

Woode Swift ( Actor )

... 1936