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