Acting
Kent Smith
Biography
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.
Movies with Kent Smith
Cat People
1942
Party Girl
1958
The Night Stalker
1972
The Fountainhead
1949
The Badlanders
1958
Sayonara
1957
Magic Town
1947
Comanche
1956
The Trouble with Angels
1966
This Land Is Mine
1943
Lost Horizon
1973
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972
The Curse of the Cat People
1944
Moon Pilot
1962
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
Paula
1952
Nora Prentiss
1947
The Last Child
1971
The Spiral Staircase
1946
This Earth Is Mine
1959
A Distant Trumpet
1964
Susan Slade
1961
Forever and a Day
1943
Games
1967
The Female Instinct
1972
The Affair
1973
The Games
1970
The Balcony
1963
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
How Awful About Allan
1970
The Cat Creature
1973
Strangers When We Meet
1960
A Covenant with Death
1967
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974
Youngblood Hawke
1964
Assignment to Kill
1968
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Youth Runs Wild
1944
My Foolish Heart
1950
The Crooked Hearts
1972
The Mugger
1958
Three Cadets
1943
Little Women: Jo's Story
1950
Three Russian Girls
1943
Probe
1972
Hitler's Children
1943
Design for Death
1947
The Money Jungle
1967
Another Part of the Forest
1972
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
The Young Lovers
1964
Kona Coast
1968
Die Sister, Die!
1978
Imitation General
1958
Back Door to Heaven
1939
The Garden Murder Case
1936
Okay for Sound
1946
This Side of the Law
1950
The Voice of the Turtle
1947
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945
Your Next Job
1945
Dental Health
1943
TV Shows with Kent Smith
Perry Mason
1957
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Wagon Train
1957
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Mission: Impossible
1966
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Wild Wild West
1965
Daniel Boone
1964
Lawman
1958
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Rawhide
1959
The Invaders
1967
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Defenders
1961
The F.B.I.
1965
Naked City
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Lights Out
1949
Studio One
1948
Matinee Theater
1955
The Outer Limits
1963
Night Gallery
1970
The Millionaire
1955
Bronco
1958
Omnibus
1952
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Wonder Woman
1975
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Felony Squad
1966
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Checkmate
1960
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Suspicion
1957
Cain's Hundred
1961
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
M Squad
1957
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
The Aquanauts
1960
The Great Adventure
1963
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Profiles in Courage
1964
Going My Way
1962
The Roaring 20's
1960
Once an Eagle
1976
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Delphi Bureau
1972
Gibbsville
1976
General Electric Theater
1953