Acting · New York City, New York, USA · Born March 19, 1907
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.
MovieDie Sister, Die!
1978
as Dr. Thorne
TVOnce an Eagle
1976
as Gen. Jacklyn
TVGibbsville
1976
TVWonder Woman
1975
as Chief Justice Brown
MovieThe Disappearance of Flight 412
1974
as Gen. Enright
MovieThe Cat Creature
1973
as Frank Lucas
MovieThe Affair
1973
as Mr. Patterson
MovieLost Horizon
1973
as Bill Fergunson
MovieThe Female Instinct
1972
as Warren Packer
MoviePete 'n' Tillie
1972
as Father Keating
MovieThe Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
as Robert Dodd
MovieThe Crooked Hearts
1972
as James Simpson
TVDelphi Bureau
1972
as Prescott
MovieAnother Part of the Forest
1972
as Simon Isham
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
MovieProbe
1972
as Dr. Edward Laurent
MovieThe Night Stalker
1972
as District Attorney Tom Paine
MovieThe Last Child
1971
as Gus Iverson
TVOwen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Keats
TVNight Gallery
1970
as Doctor
MovieHow Awful About Allan
1970
as Raymond
MovieThe Games
1970
as Kaverley
MovieDeath of a Gunfighter
1969
as Andrew Oxley
MovieKona Coast
1968
as Akamai Barnes
MovieAssignment to Kill
1968
as Mr. Eversley
MovieThe Money Jungle
1967
as Paul Kimmel
MovieGames
1967
as Harry Gordon
MovieA Covenant with Death
1967
as Oliver Parmalee
TVThe Invaders
1967
as Stan Arthur
TVMission: Impossible
1966
as Senator William Townsend
TVFelony Squad
1966
MovieThe Trouble with Angels
1966
as Uncle George Clancy
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
TVThe Wild Wild West
1965
as Governor Winston E. Brubaker
MovieThe Young Lovers
1964
as Dr. Shoemaker
Profiles in Courage
1964
as Charles Evans Hughes
MovieYoungblood Hawke
1964
as Paul Winter Sr.
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as General Hugh Scott
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Mr. Macy
MovieA Distant Trumpet
1964
as Secretary of War
TVThe Great Adventure
1963
as Gen. Nelson Miles
TVThe Outer Limits
1963
as Dr. Block
TVArrest and Trial
1963
MovieThe Balcony
1963
as General
TVGoing My Way
1962
TVThe Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Clifton Cavanaugh
TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Mr. Benner
MovieMoon Pilot
1962
as Secretary of the Air Force
MovieSusan Slade
1961
as Dr. Fain
TVCain's Hundred
1961
as Charles Dennis
TVThe Defenders
1961
as Dwight Harkavy
TVThe Roaring 20's
1960
TVThe Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Dexter Willis
TVCheckmate
1960
as Ainslee
TVThe Aquanauts
1960
as George
MovieStrangers When We Meet
1960
as Stanley Baxter
TVAdventures in Paradise
1959
as Michael Legrange
MovieThis Earth Is Mine
1959
as Francis Fairon
TVRawhide
1959
MovieThe Mugger
1958
as Dr. Pete Graham
MovieParty Girl
1958
as Jeffrey Stewart
TV77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Robert Vincent
TVLawman
1958
as Kent Smith
TVNaked City
1958
as George Blake
TVBronco
1958
MovieThe Badlanders
1958
as Cyril Lounsberry
MovieImitation General
1958
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
MovieSayonara
1957
as Gen. Webster
TVSuspicion
1957
as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
TVPerry Mason
1957
as Dr. Arthur Younger
TVM Squad
1957
as Howard Meston
TVWagon Train
1957
as Prof. Paul Owens
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
MovieComanche
1956
as Quanah Parker
TVMatinee Theater
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Gilbert Hughes
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Bealton
TVThe Millionaire
1955
as Bill Franklin
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Dr. Jonathan Michael
TVOmnibus
1952
as Sergius Saranoff
MoviePaula
1952
as John Rogers
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Bolingbroke
MovieLittle Women: Jo's Story
1950
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as David Barlow
MovieThis Side of the Law
1950
as David Cummins
MovieThe Damned Don't Cry
1950
as Martin Blackford
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Prince Albert
MovieMy Foolish Heart
1950
as Lewis H. Wengler
TVLights Out
1949
MovieThe Fountainhead
1949
as Peter Keating
TVStudio One
1948
as Friedrich Bhaer
TVThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as John Wilkes Booth
MovieThe Voice of the Turtle
1947
as Kenneth Bartlett
MovieMagic Town
1947
as Hoopendecker
MovieNora Prentiss
1947
as Dr. Richard Talbot
MovieDesign for Death
1947
as Narrator
MovieOkay for Sound
1946
MovieThe Spiral Staircase
1946
as Dr. Parry
Your Next Job
1945
as Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945
as Briefing Colonel
MovieYouth Runs Wild
1944
as Danny Coates
MovieResisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
MovieThe Curse of the Cat People
1944
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
MovieThree Russian Girls
1943
as John Hill
Dental Health
1943
as Narrator
MovieThis Land Is Mine
1943
as Paul Martin
Three Cadets
1943
as Captain A. Edwards
MovieForever and a Day
1943
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
MovieHitler's Children
1943
as Professor Nichols
MovieCat People
1942
as Oliver Reed
MovieBack Door to Heaven
1939
as Attorney (uncredited)
MovieThe Garden Murder Case
1936
as Woode Swift
