Kent Smith
Acting
Born 1907-03-19
Died 1985-04-23
New York City, New York, USA
112 credits
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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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Acting
51 credits
Perry Mason
Mission: Impossible
Wagon Train
The Wild Wild West
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Beverly Hillbillies
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Philco Television Playhouse
Daniel Boone
Lawman
Naked City
The Defenders
Gunsmoke
Night Gallery
The F.B.I.
Studio One
The Outer Limits
The Invaders
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Adventures in Paradise
Omnibus
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
77 Sunset Strip
The Millionaire
Wonder Woman
Checkmate
M Squad
Suspicion
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Cain's Hundred
The Great Adventure
Lux Video Theatre
Profiles in Courage
The Aquanauts
Once an Eagle
Cat People
The Night Stalker
Sayonara
The Spiral Staircase
Delphi Bureau
Party Girl
The Fountainhead
Magic Town
Moon Pilot
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lost Horizon
The Badlanders
Comanche
This Land Is Mine
Other credits
9 credits
Matinee Theater
Rawhide
The Streets of San Francisco
Lights Out
Felony Squad
Bronco
Arrest and Trial
Going My Way
The Roaring 20's
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