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Kent Smith (born Frank Kent Smith) was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
1962
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 19, 1907
Died
April 23, 1985
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Susan Slade
1961
The Affair
1973
Youngblood Hawke
1964
A Distant Trumpet
1964
Games
1967
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
The Games
1970
The Night Stalker
1972
This Earth Is Mine
1959
Cat People
1942
The Female Instinct
1972
Nora Prentiss
1947
The Mugger
1958
Paula
1952
Forever and a Day
1943
Sayonara
1957
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972
Hitler's Children
1943
The Cat Creature
1973
Probe
1972
+ 42 more movies
Perry Mason
1957
Perry Mason
1957
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Mission: Impossible
1966
Wagon Train
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Studio One
1948
Studio One
1948
The Wild Wild West
1965
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Naked City
1958
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Rawhide
1959
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Gunsmoke
1955
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