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