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Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Actor · 1907 – 1985 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.9

    Cat People

    1942 · 692 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Night Stalker

    1972 · 137 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Death of a Gunfighter

    1969 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Fountainhead

    1949 · 161 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Sayonara

    1957 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Trouble with Angels

    1966 · 77 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Party Girl

    1958 · 70 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Badlanders

    1958 · 46 votes

  • Movie7.1

    This Land Is Mine

    1943 · 72 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Strangers When We Meet

    1960 · 45 votes

  • Movie6.6

    This Earth Is Mine

    1959 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Nora Prentiss

    1947 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Magic Town

    1947 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Games

    1967 · 38 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Lost Horizon

    1973 · 41 votes

  • Movie5.5

    A Distant Trumpet

    1964 · 32 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Spiral Staircase

    1946 · 283 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Moon Pilot

    1962 · 23 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Forever and a Day

    1943 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.6

    My Foolish Heart

    1950 · 20 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Damned Don't Cry

    1950 · 63 votes

  • Movie5.0
  • Movie6.3

    Youngblood Hawke

    1964 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Comanche

    1956 · 22 votes

Series24

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966 · 320 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV5.7

    Naked City

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Defenders

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Wild Wild West

    1965 · 86 votes

  • TV6.6
  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.0

    Lawman

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Invaders

    1967 · 62 votes

  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV7.1
  • TV6.5
  • TV7.2

    77 Sunset Strip

    1958 · 26 votes