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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 19, 1907
Died
April 23, 1985
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Kenneth Smith
- Frank Kent Smith
Kent Smith
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.7
Dr. Thorne
Die Sister, Die!
1978
6.8
Gen. Jacklyn
Once an Eagle
1976
0.0
Gibbsville
1976
7.0
Chief Justice Brown
Wonder Woman
1975
4.9
Gen. Enright
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974
5.0
Frank Lucas
The Cat Creature
1973
3.2
Mr. Patterson
The Affair
1973
5.4
Bill Fergunson
Lost Horizon
1973
0.0
Warren Packer
The Female Instinct
1972
5.8
Father Keating
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972
Credits
Die Sister, Die!
as Dr. Thorne
1978
4.7
Once an Eagle
as Gen. Jacklyn
1976
6.8
Gibbsville
1976
0.0
Wonder Woman
as Chief Justice Brown
1975
7.0
The Disappearance of Flight 412
as Gen. Enright
1974
4.9
The Cat Creature
as Frank Lucas
1973
5.0
The Affair
as Mr. Patterson
1973
3.2
Lost Horizon
as Bill Fergunson
1973
5.4
The Female Instinct
as Warren Packer
1972
0.0
Pete 'n' Tillie
as Father Keating
1972
5.8
The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Robert Dodd
1972
3.0
The Crooked Hearts
as James Simpson
1972
7.8
Delphi Bureau
as Prescott
1972
0.0
Another Part of the Forest
as Simon Isham
1972
0.0
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
Probe
as Dr. Edward Laurent
1972
5.5
The Night Stalker
as District Attorney Tom Paine
1972
6.9
The Last Child
as Gus Iverson
1971
7.0
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Keats
1971
6.3
Night Gallery
as Doctor
1970
7.8
Night Gallery
as Bennett
1970
7.8
How Awful About Allan
as Raymond
1970
5.8
The Games
as Kaverley
1970
7.1
Death of a Gunfighter
as Andrew Oxley
1969
6.2
Assignment to Kill
as Mr. Eversley
1968
6.0
Kona Coast
as Akamai Barnes
1968
2.9
The Money Jungle
as Paul Kimmel
1967
5.0
Games
as Harry Gordon
1967
6.1
A Covenant with Death
as Oliver Parmalee
1967
4.7
The Invaders
as Stan Arthur
1967
6.8
The Invaders
as Edgar Scoville
1967
6.8
Mission: Impossible
as Senator William Townsend
1966
7.6
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The Trouble with Angels
as Uncle George Clancy
1966
6.7
The F.B.I.
as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Wendell Price
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Commodore Coldwell
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Elwood Hayes
1965
5.4
The Wild Wild West
as Governor Winston E. Brubaker
1965
7.6
The Young Lovers
as Dr. Shoemaker
1964
2.0
🎬
Profiles in Courage
as Charles Evans Hughes
1964
5.0
Youngblood Hawke
as Paul Winter Sr.
1964
6.1
Daniel Boone
as General Hugh Scott
1964
7.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Mr. Macy
1964
7.1
A Distant Trumpet
as Secretary of War
1964
5.3
The Great Adventure
as Gen. Nelson Miles
1963
0.0
The Great Adventure
as William Carroll
1963
0.0
The Great Adventure
as Grymes
1963
0.0
The Outer Limits
as Dr. Block
1963
7.8
The Outer Limits
as Aabel
1963
7.8
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.7
The Balcony
as General
1963
5.0
Going My Way
1962
5.7
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Clifton Cavanaugh
1962
6.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mr. Benner
1962
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Jerry O'Hara
1962
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Dr. Sam Adamson
1962
7.8
Moon Pilot
as Secretary of the Air Force
1962
5.4
Susan Slade
as Dr. Fain
1961
5.8
Cain's Hundred
as Charles Dennis
1961
4.7
The Defenders
as Dwight Harkavy
1961
5.9
The Roaring 20's
1960
0.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dexter Willis
1960
6.2
Checkmate
as Ainslee
1960
4.1
The Aquanauts
as George
1960
5.5
Strangers When We Meet
as Stanley Baxter
1960
6.2
Adventures in Paradise
as Michael Legrange
1959
5.7
Adventures in Paradise
as Crandall
1959
5.7
This Earth Is Mine
as Francis Fairon
1959
6.1
Rawhide
1959
7.2
The Mugger
as Dr. Pete Graham
1958
5.6
Party Girl
as Jeffrey Stewart
1958
6.8
77 Sunset Strip
as Robert Vincent
1958
6.7
Lawman
as Kent Smith
1958
5.6
Naked City
as George Blake
1958
5.5
Bronco
1958
5.9
The Badlanders
as Cyril Lounsberry
1958
6.1
Imitation General
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
1958
5.7
Sayonara
as Gen. Webster
1957
6.7
Suspicion
as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
1957
5.9
Perry Mason
as Dr. Arthur Younger
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Howard Meston
1957
5.2
Wagon Train
as Prof. Paul Owens
1957
6.6
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Avery Coombs
1957
7.3
Comanche
as Quanah Parker
1956
5.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Gilbert Hughes
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Bealton
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Dakota
1955
6.6
The Millionaire
as Bill Franklin
1955
5.0
General Electric Theater
as Dr. Jonathan Michael
1953
6.4
Paula
as John Rogers
1952
6.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Bolingbroke
1951
8.6
Little Women: Jo's Story
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
1950
0.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as David Barlow
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Steven, at 48
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Steve Ferris
1950
6.3
This Side of the Law
as David Cummins
1950
4.5
The Damned Don't Cry
as Martin Blackford
1950
7.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Prince Albert
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
My Foolish Heart
as Lewis H. Wengler
1950
6.4
Lights Out
1949
5.8
The Fountainhead
as Peter Keating
1949
6.8
Studio One
as Friedrich Bhaer
1948
5.0
Studio One
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as John Wilkes Booth
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Design for Death
as Narrator
1948
6.0
The Voice of the Turtle
as Kenneth Bartlett
1947
6.6
Magic Town
as Hoopendecker
1947
6.7
Nora Prentiss
as Dr. Richard Talbot
1947
6.1
Okay for Sound
1946
5.0
The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Parry
1946
7.0
🎬
Your Next Job
as Instructor Lieutenant
1945
0.0
🎬
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
as Briefing Colonel
1945
0.0
Youth Runs Wild
as Danny Coates
1944
4.2
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
1944
6.6
The Curse of the Cat People
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
1944
6.2
Three Russian Girls
as John Hill
1943
6.0
🎬
Dental Health
as Narrator
1943
0.0
This Land Is Mine
as Paul Martin
1943
7.2
🎬
Three Cadets
as Captain A. Edwards
1943
0.0
Forever and a Day
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
1943
7.4
Hitler's Children
as Professor Nichols
1943
5.9
Cat People
as Oliver Reed
1942
6.9
Back Door to Heaven
as Attorney (uncredited)
1939
3.7
The Garden Murder Case
as Woode Swift
1936
5.4