Kent Smith
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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.
Known for
Credits
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
as Andrew Oxley
The Night Stalker (1972)
as District Attorney Tom Paine
Cat People (1942)
as Oliver Reed
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Peter Keating
The Badlanders (1958)
as Cyril Lounsberry
Party Girl (1958)
as Jeffrey Stewart
Magic Town (1947)
as Hoopendecker
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
as Dr. Parry
Lost Horizon (1973)
as Bill Fergunson
Sayonara (1957)
as Gen. Webster
Moon Pilot (1962)
as Secretary of the Air Force
Forever and a Day (1943)
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
Susan Slade (1961)
as Dr. Fain
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
as Uncle George Clancy
The Last Child (1971)
as Gus Iverson
The Affair (1973)
as Mr. Patterson
The Games (1970)
as Kaverley
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Games (1967)
as Harry Gordon
The Balcony (1963)
as General
The Mugger (1958)
as Dr. Pete Graham
This Land Is Mine (1943)
as Paul Martin
Comanche (1956)
as Quanah Parker
Paula (1952)
as John Rogers
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
as Stanley Baxter
A Covenant with Death (1967)
as Oliver Parmalee
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
as Father Keating
The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972)
as Robert Dodd
Nora Prentiss (1947)
as Dr. Richard Talbot
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
as Francis Fairon
My Foolish Heart (1950)
as Lewis H. Wengler
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
as Martin Blackford
Little Women: Jo's Story (1950)
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
The Cat Creature (1973)
as Frank Lucas
The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
as Kenneth Bartlett
Kona Coast (1968)
as Akamai Barnes
A Distant Trumpet (1964)
as Secretary of War
How Awful About Allan (1970)
as Raymond
The Crooked Hearts (1972)
as James Simpson
Assignment to Kill (1968)
as Mr. Eversley
The Female Instinct (1972)
as Warren Packer
The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974)
as Gen. Enright
Probe (1972)
as Dr. Edward Laurent
Hitler's Children (1943)
as Professor Nichols
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
as Paul Winter Sr.
Back Door to Heaven (1939)
as Attorney (uncredited)
The Money Jungle (1967)
as Paul Kimmel
This Side of the Law (1950)
as David Cummins
Die Sister, Die! (1978)
as Dr. Thorne
Youth Runs Wild (1944)
as Danny Coates
Another Part of the Forest (1972)
as Simon Isham
The Young Lovers (1964)
as Dr. Shoemaker
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
Imitation General (1958)
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Woode Swift
Okay for Sound (1946)
Actor
Three Russian Girls (1943)
as John Hill
Design for Death (1947)
as Narrator
Three Cadets (1943)
as Captain A. Edwards
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures (1945)
as Briefing Colonel
Your Next Job (1945)
as Instructor Lieutenant
Dental Health (1943)
as Narrator