Kent Smith

Known for ActingBorn 1907-03-19Died 1985-04-23New 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Gibbsville

Another Part of the Forest

The Great Adventure

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Arrest and Trial

Paula

Delphi Bureau

Night Gallery

Three Russian Girls

Three Cadets

The Outer Limits

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Crooked Hearts

The Last Child

Perry Mason

The Wild Wild West

Mission: Impossible

Profiles in Courage

The Games

Forever and a Day

Have Gun, Will Travel

Rawhide

Wonder Woman

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Streets of San Francisco

The Female Instinct

77 Sunset Strip

Daniel Boone

This Land Is Mine

The Night Stalker

The Spiral Staircase

Once an Eagle

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Damned Don't Cry

The Invaders

Okay for Sound

The Trouble with Angels

Party Girl

General Electric Theater

Cat People

The Fountainhead

Sayonara

The Voice of the Turtle

Gunsmoke

Lux Video Theatre

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Imitation General