Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Birthday: 1907-03-19

Deathday: 1985-04-23

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as: Kenneth Smith, Frank Kent Smith

imdb_id: nm0808949

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.

Played in movies:

The Crooked Hearts

Score: 7.8

Forever and a Day

Score: 7.4

This Land Is Mine

Score: 7.1

The Games

Score: 7.1

The Damned Don't Cry

Score: 7.1

The Spiral Staircase

Score: 7.1

The Last Child

Score: 7.0

Cat People

Score: 6.9

The Fountainhead

Score: 6.8

The Trouble with Angels

Score: 6.8

The Night Stalker

Score: 6.8

Party Girl

Score: 6.8

My Foolish Heart

Score: 6.7

Magic Town

Score: 6.7

Sayonara

Score: 6.7

The Voice of the Turtle

Score: 6.6

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Score: 6.6

Paula

Score: 6.5

Death of a Gunfighter

Score: 6.4

Strangers When We Meet

Score: 6.4

The Badlanders

Score: 6.2

The Curse of the Cat People

Score: 6.2

This Earth Is Mine

Score: 6.1

Youngblood Hawke

Score: 6.1

Nora Prentiss

Score: 6.1

Games

Score: 6.1

Design for Death

Score: 6.0

Assignment to Kill

Score: 6.0

Three Russian Girls

Score: 6.0

Hitler's Children

Score: 5.9

How Awful About Allan

Score: 5.8

Susan Slade

Score: 5.8

Imitation General

Score: 5.7

Pete 'n' Tillie

Score: 5.6

The Mugger

Score: 5.6

Probe

Score: 5.5

The Garden Murder Case

Score: 5.5

A Distant Trumpet

Score: 5.4

Moon Pilot

Score: 5.4

Lost Horizon

Score: 5.4

The Balcony

Score: 5.2

Okay for Sound

Score: 5.0

The Money Jungle

Score: 5.0

A Covenant with Death

Score: 5.0

The Cat Creature

Score: 5.0

Comanche

Score: 5.0

The Disappearance of Flight 412

Score: 4.9

This Side of the Law

Score: 4.8

Die Sister, Die!

Score: 4.7

Youth Runs Wild

Score: 4.2

Back Door to Heaven

Score: 3.7

The Affair

Score: 3.6

Kona Coast

Score: 3.1

The Judge and Jake Wyler

Score: 3.0

The Young Lovers

Score: 2.0

Dental Health

Score: 0.0

Little Women: Jo's Story

Score: 0.0

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures

Score: 0.0

Your Next Job

Score: 0.0

Three Cadets

Score: 0.0

Another Part of the Forest

Score: 0.0

The Female Instinct

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

Night Gallery

Score: 7.8

Night Gallery

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Arrest and Trial

Score: 7.7

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

The Wild Wild West

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Wonder Woman

Score: 7.0

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

The Invaders

Score: 6.8

The Invaders

Score: 6.8

Once an Eagle

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

The Philco Television Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The Philco Television Playhouse

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Score: 6.2

The Defenders

Score: 5.9

Suspicion

Score: 5.9

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Going My Way

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Robert Montgomery Presents

Score: 5.6

Robert Montgomery Presents

Score: 5.6

The Aquanauts

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Lights Out

Score: 5.3

Bronco

Score: 5.2

M Squad

Score: 5.2

Studio One

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

Profiles in Courage

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Studio One

Score: 5.0

Cain's Hundred

Score: 4.7

Checkmate

Score: 4.1

Gibbsville

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0

The Roaring 20's

Score: 0.0

The Great Adventure

Score: 0.0