Kent Smith
Acteur
19 maart 1907 — 23 april 1985 (78 years)
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.
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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Filmography
| 1978 | Die Sister, Die! · as Dr. ThorneOp Plex |
| 1977 | Billy Jack Goes to Washington · as Sen. Sam Foley |
| 1976 | Once an Eagle · as Gen. Jacklyn |
| 1976 | |
| 1975 | Wonder Woman · as Chief Justice Brown |
| 1974 | The Disappearance of Flight 412 · as Gen. EnrightOp Plex |
| 1973 | The Cat Creature · as Frank Lucas |
| 1973 | The Affair · as Mr. Patterson |
| 1973 | Cops and Robbers · as Bit Part |
| 1973 | Maurie · as Dr. Walker |
| 1973 | Lost Horizon · as Bill Fergunson |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones · as George Weatherly |
| 1972 | The Snoop Sisters · as Warren Packer |
| 1972 | Pete 'n' Tillie · as Father Keating |
| 1972 | The Judge and Jake Wyler · as Robert Dodd |
| 1972 | The Crooked Hearts · as James Simpson |
| 1972 | Cool Million · as Miles Eubanks |
| 1972 | |
| 1972 | The Delphi Bureau · as Prescott |
| 1972 | Probe · as Dr. Edward Laurent |
| 1972 | The Night Stalker · as District Attorney Tom Paine |
| 1971 | The Last Child · as Gus Iverson |
| 1971 | Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law · as Keats |
| 1970 | How Awful About Allan · as RaymondOp Plex |
| 1970 | The Games · as Kaverley |
| 1969 | Night Gallery · as Doctor |
| 1969 | The Governor & J.J. · as Frank Courthouse |
| 1969 | Death of a Gunfighter · as Andrew Oxley |
| 1968 | Kona Coast · as Akamai Barnes |
| 1968 | Assignment to Kill · as Mr. Eversley |
| 1967 | The Money Jungle · as Paul Kimmel |
| 1967 | Games · as Harry Gordon |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death · as Oliver Parmalee |
| 1967 | The Invaders · as Stan Arthur |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible · as Senator William Townsend |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | The Trouble with Angels · as Uncle George Clancy |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West · as Governor Winston E. Brubaker |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. · as Commodore Coldwell |
| 1965 | I Spy · as James Winthrop |
| 1965 | A Man Called Shenandoah · as Dr. Sherman |
| 1964 | The Young Lovers · as Dr. Shoemaker |
| 1964 | Profiles in Courage · as Charles Evans Hughes |
| 1964 | Youngblood Hawke · as Paul Winter Sr. |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone · as General Hugh Scott |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · as Mr. Macy |
| 1964 | Peyton Place · as Dr. Robert Morton |
| 1964 | A Distant Trumpet · as Secretary Of War |
| 1963 | The Balcony · as GeneralOp Plex |
| 1963 | The Great Adventure · as Gen. Nelson Miles |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits · as AabelOp Plex |
| 1963 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | The Eleventh Hour · as Walter Farnham |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies · as Clifton CavanaughOp Plex |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · as Mr. Benner |
| 1962 | The Wide Country · as John 'jack' Edgecomb |
| 1962 | Moon Pilot · as Secretary Of The Air Force |
| 1961 | Susan Slade · as Dr. Fain |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred · as Charles Dennis |
| 1961 | The Defenders · as Dwight Harkavy |
| 1961 | The Americans · as Capt. Vickery |
| 1960 | The Roaring 20's · as Mark Fenton |
| 1960 | Insight · as Archbishop |
| 1960 | Michael Shayne · as Kenneth Russell |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show · as Dexter Willis |
| 1960 | Checkmate · as Ainslee |
| 1960 | The Aquanauts · as George |
| 1960 | Strangers When We Meet · as Stanley Baxter |
| 1959 | Adventures in Paradise · as Michael Legrange |
| 1959 | This Earth Is Mine · as Francis Fairon |
| 1959 | The Untouchables · as Eli Halstead |
| 1959 | Rawhide · as Capt. Loomis |
| 1958 | The Badlanders · as Cyril Lounsberry |
| 1958 | Party Girl · as Jeffrey Stewart |
| 1958 | The Mugger · as Dr. Pete Graham |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip · as Robert Vincent |
| 1958 | Naked City · as George Blake |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | Imitation General · as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane |
| 1957 | Sayonara · as Gen. Webster |
| 1957 | Suspicion · as Dr. Jonathan Michel, The Psychiatrist |
| 1957 | Perry Mason · as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe |
| 1957 | M Squad · as Howard Meston |
| 1957 | Wagon Train · as Prof. Paul Owens |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel · as Avery Coombs |
| 1956 | Comanche · as Quanah ParkerOp Plex |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | Crossroads (1955) · as Cast |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents · as Gilbert Hughes |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke · as Bealton |
| 1955 | Science Fiction Theatre · as Professor Alex Bondar |
| 1955 | The Millionaire · as Bill Franklin |
| 1954 | Camera Three · as Cast |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater · as Dr. Jonathan Michael |
| 1952 | Omnibus · as Sergius Saranoff (segment: Arms And The Man) |
| 1952 | Paula · as John Rogers |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame · as Bolingbroke |
| 1950 | Little Women: Jo's Story · as Professor Fritz Bhaer |
| 1950 | The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre · as Steven, At 48 |
| 1950 | This Side of the Law · as David Cummins |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre · as Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz |
| 1950 | The Damned Don't Cry · as Martin Blackford |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents · as Prince Albert |
| 1949 | My Foolish Heart · as Lewis H. WenglerOp Plex |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead · as Peter Keating |
| 1948 | Studio One · as Friedrich Bhaer |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse · as John Wilkes Booth |
| 1947 | The Voice of the Turtle · as Kenneth Bartlett |
| 1947 | Magic Town · as Hoopendecker |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre · as Cast |
| 1947 | Nora Prentiss · as Dr. Richard Talbot |
| 1947 | Design for Death · as Narrator |
| 1946 | |
| 1946 | The Spiral Staircase · as Dr. ParryOp Plex |
| 1944 | Youth Runs Wild · as Danny Coates |
| 1944 | Resisting Enemy Interrogation · as Capt. Reining - American Working For The Nazis |
| 1944 | The Curse of the Cat People · as Oliver 'ollie' Reed |
| 1943 | Three Russian Girls · as John Hill |
| 1943 | This Land Is Mine · as Paul Martin |
| 1943 | Forever and a Day · as Gates Trimble Pomfret |
| 1943 | Hitler's Children · as Professor Nichols |
| 1942 | Cat People · as Oliver Reed |
| 1939 | Back Door to Heaven · as Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Garden Murder Case · as Woode Swift |
| 1982 | Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies · as Self |
| 1960 | Here's Hollywood · as Self |
| 1958 | Lawman · as Kent Smith |