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Kent Smith

Actor | * 03/19/1907 († 78, 04/23/1985) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
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Frank Kent Smith (March 19, 1907 – April 23, 1985) was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theatre and television. ()

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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Mystery

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Movies with Kent Smith as Actor(60)

as Dr. Thorne1978 Die Sister, Die!
as Frank Lucas1973 The Cat Creature
as Bill Fergunson1973 Lost Horizon
as Mr. Patterson1973 The Affair
as District Attorney Tom Paine1972 The Night Stalker
as Robert Dodd1972 The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Father Keating1972 Pete 'n' Tillie
as Dr. Edward Laurent1972 Probe
as Simon Isham1972 Another Part of the Forest
as Warren Packer1972 The Snoop Sisters
as James Simpson1972 The Crooked Hearts
as Gus Iverson1971 The Last Child
as Raymond1970 How Awful About Allan
as Kaverley1970 The Games
as Andrew Oxley1969 Death of a Gunfighter
as Mr. Eversley1968 Assignment to Kill
as Akamai1968 Kona Coast
as Harry Gordon1967 Games
as Paul Kimmel1967 The Money Jungle
as Oliver Parmalee1967 A Covenant with Death
as Uncle George Clancy1966 The Trouble with Angels
as Paul Winter Sr.1964 Youngblood Hawke
as Secretary of War1964 A Distant Trumpet
as Dr. Shoemaker1964 The Young Lovers
as General1963 The Balcony
as Secretary of the Air Force1962 Moon Pilot
as Dr. Fain1961 Susan Slade
as Stanley Baxter1960 Strangers When We Meet
as Francis Fairon1959 This Earth Is Mine
as Cyril Lounsberry1958 The Badlanders
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane1958 Imitation General
as Dr. Pete Graham1958 The Mugger
as Jeffrey Stewart1958 Party Girl
as Gen. Webster1957 Sayonara
as Quanah Parker1956 Comanche
as John Rogers1952 Paula
as Martin Blackford1950 The Damned Don't Cry
as Lewis H. Wengler1950 My Foolish Heart
as David Cummins1950 This Side of the Law
as Professor Fritz Bhaer1950 Little Women: Jo's Story
as Peter Keating1949 The Fountainhead
as Kenneth Bartlett1947 The Voice of the Turtle
as Narrator1947 Design for Death
as Dr. Richard Talbot aka Robert Thompson1947 Nora Prentiss
as Hoopendecker1947 Magic Town
as Dr. Parry1946 The Spiral Staircase
as Instructor Lieutenant1945 Your Next Job
as Danny Coates1944 Youth Runs Wild
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed1944 The Curse of the Cat People
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis1944 Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as Paul Martin1943 This Land Is Mine
as Professor Nichols1943 Hitler's Children
as Gates Trimble Pomfret1943 Forever and a Day
as John Hill1943 Three Russian Girls
as Captain A. Edwards1943 Three Cadets
as Oliver Reed1942 Cat People
as Attorney (uncredited)1939 Back Door to Heaven
as Woode Swift1936 The Garden Murder Case

TV Shows/Series with Kent Smith as Actor(56)

as Chief Justice Brown1975 Wonder Woman
as Stan Arthur1967 The Invaders
as Edgar Scoville1967 The Invaders
as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter1965 The F.B.I.
as Wendell Price1965 The F.B.I.
as Commodore Coldwell1965 The F.B.I.
as Elwood Hayes1965 The F.B.I.
as Charles Evans Hughes1964 Profiles in Courage
as General Hugh Scott1964 Daniel Boone
as Gen. Nelson Miles1963 The Great Adventure
as William Carroll1963 The Great Adventure
as Grymes1963 The Great Adventure
as Dr. Block1963 The Outer Limits
as Aabel1963 The Outer Limits
as Jerry O'Hara1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Dr. Sam Adamson1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mr. Benner1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Charles Dennis1961 Cain's Hundred
as Dwight Harkavy1961 The Defenders
as Dexter Willis1960 The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Ainslee1960 Checkmate
as George1960 The Aquanauts
1959 Rawhide
as Michael Legrange1959 Adventures in Paradise
as Crandall1959 Adventures in Paradise
as George Blake1958 Naked City
as Robert Vincent1958 77 Sunset Strip
1958 Bronco
as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist1957 Suspicion
as Dr. Arthur Younger1957 Perry Mason
as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe1957 Perry Mason
as Howard Meston1957 M Squad
as Gilbert Hughes1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bill Franklin1955 The Millionaire
as Bealton1955 Gunsmoke
as Dakota1955 Gunsmoke
as Dr. Jonathan Michael1953 GE Theater
as Bolingbroke1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as David Barlow1950 Lux Video Theatre
as Steve Ferris1950 Lux Video Theatre
as Steven, at 481950 Lux Video Theatre
as Prince Albert1950 Robert Montgomery Presents
as Friedrich Bhaer1948 Studio One
as John Wilkes Booth1948 The Philco Television Playhouse

Movies with Kent Smith as Crew(1)

Production/Producer1982 Taking Tiger Mountain

Full Name: Kent Smith
Born: Tuesday, 03/19 1907 (March) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 04/23 1985 (April) in Woodland Hills (aged: 78)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Educated at: Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy
Spouses (current/former): Edith Atwater
Other names for Kent Smith (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Kenneth Smith"
"Frank Kent Smith"
Kent Smith frequently works together with these people:
Vaughn Taylor (56x, Actor)
Harry Townes (43x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (36x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (36x, Actress)
Dabbs Greer (35x, Actor)
Claude Akins (34x, Actor)
Barbara Stanwyck (33x, Actress)
Robert H. Harris (32x, Actor)
John Hoyt (31x, Actor)
James Daly (31x, Actor)
John Anderson (31x, Actor)
Delmer Daves (6x, Crew)

Other people with this name: Kent Smith (AU)

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