Kent Smith
Acting • Born 1907-03-19 – Died 1985-04-23
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.
Filmography
130 credits
The Crooked Hearts
Movie • 1972
James Simpson
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Peter Keating
Cat People
Movie • 1942
Oliver Reed
Party Girl
Movie • 1958
Jeffrey Stewart
The Spiral Staircase
Movie • 1946
Dr. Parry
Nora Prentiss
Movie • 1947
Dr. Richard Talbot
The Female Instinct
Movie • 1972
Warren Packer
Sayonara
Movie • 1957
Gen. Webster
The Curse of the Cat People
Movie • 1944
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Die Sister, Die!
Movie • 1978
Dr. Thorne
The Damned Don't Cry
Movie • 1950
Martin Blackford
The Night Stalker
Movie • 1972
District Attorney Tom Paine
Back Door to Heaven
Movie • 1939
Attorney (uncredited)
This Land Is Mine
Movie • 1943
Paul Martin
This Side of the Law
Movie • 1950
David Cummins
Moon Pilot
Movie • 1962
Secretary of the Air Force
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Movie • 1972
Robert Dodd
The Mugger
Movie • 1958
Dr. Pete Graham
A Distant Trumpet
Movie • 1964
Secretary of War
How Awful About Allan
Movie • 1970
Raymond
Death of a Gunfighter
Movie • 1969
Andrew Oxley
Susan Slade
Movie • 1961
Dr. Fain
Games
Movie • 1967
Harry Gordon
Youth Runs Wild
Movie • 1944
Danny Coates
Strangers When We Meet
Movie • 1960
Stanley Baxter
Lost Horizon
Movie • 1973
Bill Fergunson
Hitler's Children
Movie • 1943
Professor Nichols
Comanche
Movie • 1956
Quanah Parker
Youngblood Hawke
Movie • 1964
Paul Winter Sr.
The Garden Murder Case
Movie • 1936
Woode Swift
Kona Coast
Movie • 1968
Akamai Barnes
The Cat Creature
Movie • 1973
Frank Lucas
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Movie • 1944
Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
This Earth Is Mine
Movie • 1959
Francis Fairon
The Voice of the Turtle
Movie • 1947
Kenneth Bartlett
Probe
Movie • 1972
Dr. Edward Laurent
Imitation General
Movie • 1958
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
The Young Lovers
Movie • 1964
Dr. Shoemaker
The Last Child
Movie • 1971
Gus Iverson
Paula
Movie • 1952
John Rogers
A Covenant with Death
Movie • 1967
Oliver Parmalee
Three Russian Girls
Movie • 1943
John Hill
Magic Town
Movie • 1947
Hoopendecker
The Trouble with Angels
Movie • 1966
Uncle George Clancy
The Affair
Movie • 1973
Mr. Patterson
The Badlanders
Movie • 1958
Cyril Lounsberry
My Foolish Heart
Movie • 1950
Lewis H. Wengler
Assignment to Kill
Movie • 1968
Mr. Eversley
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Movie • 1974
Gen. Enright
The Money Jungle
Movie • 1967
Paul Kimmel
Another Part of the Forest
Movie • 1972
Simon Isham
Forever and a Day
Movie • 1943
Gates Trimble Pomfret
Pete 'n' Tillie
Movie • 1972
Father Keating
The Balcony
Movie • 1963
General
The Games
Movie • 1970
Kaverley
Three Cadets
Movie • 1943
Captain A. Edwards
Okay for Sound
Movie • 1946
Your Next Job
Movie • 1945
Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Movie • 1945
Briefing Colonel
Little Women: Jo's Story
Movie • 1950
Professor Fritz Bhaer
Design for Death
Movie • 1948
Narrator
Dental Health
Movie • 1943
Narrator
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Robert Vincent
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Charles Dennis
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Gen. Nelson Miles
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Clifton Cavanaugh
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Naked City
TV • 1958
George Blake
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Dr. Arthur Younger
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bealton
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Studio One
TV • 1948
Friedrich Bhaer
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Chief Justice Brown
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Dr. Jonathan Michael
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Senator William Townsend
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Bolingbroke
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Gilbert Hughes
Going My Way
TV • 1962
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
General Hugh Scott
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Bill Franklin
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
David Barlow
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
George
M Squad
TV • 1957
Howard Meston
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Michael Legrange
Bronco
TV • 1958
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Charles Evans Hughes
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
John Wilkes Booth
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Prince Albert
Lights Out
TV • 1949
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Dwight Harkavy
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Dr. Block
The Roaring 20's
TV • 1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Dexter Willis
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Doctor
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Prof. Paul Owens
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Crandall
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Wendell Price
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Commodore Coldwell
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Elwood Hayes
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Dakota
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Avery Coombs
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Aabel
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Steven, at 48
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Steve Ferris
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Ainslee
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
William Carroll
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Grymes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Mr. Benner
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Governor Winston E. Brubaker
Studio One
TV • 1948
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Bennett
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Keats
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Mr. Macy
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Stan Arthur
Lawman
TV • 1958
Kent Smith
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Edgar Scoville
Once an Eagle
TV • 1976
Gen. Jacklyn
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Jerry O'Hara
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Dr. Sam Adamson
Gibbsville
TV • 1976
Delphi Bureau
TV • 1972
Prescott