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