Kent Smith
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.
Fotos
Películas (64)
Taking Tiger Mountain
1982 · Producer
Die Sister, Die!
1978 · Dr. Thorne
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974 · Gen. Enright
The Cat Creature
1973 · Frank Lucas
The Affair
1973 · Mr. Patterson
Lost Horizon
1973 · Bill Fergunson
The Female Instinct
1972 · Warren Packer
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972 · Father Keating
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972 · Robert Dodd
The Crooked Hearts
1972 · James Simpson
Another Part of the Forest
1972 · Simon Isham
Probe
1972 · Dr. Edward Laurent
The Night Stalker
1972 · District Attorney Tom Paine
The Last Child
1971 · Gus Iverson
How Awful About Allan
1970 · Raymond
The Games
1970 · Kaverley
Death of a Gunfighter
1969 · Andrew Oxley
Kona Coast
1968 · Akamai Barnes
Assignment to Kill
1968 · Mr. Eversley
The Money Jungle
1967 · Paul Kimmel
Games
1967 · Harry Gordon
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Oliver Parmalee
The Trouble with Angels
1966 · Uncle George Clancy
The Young Lovers
1964 · Dr. Shoemaker
Youngblood Hawke
1964 · Paul Winter Sr.
A Distant Trumpet
1964 · Secretary of War
The Balcony
1963 · General
Moon Pilot
1962 · Secretary of the Air Force
Susan Slade
1961 · Dr. Fain
Strangers When We Meet
1960 · Stanley Baxter
This Earth Is Mine
1959 · Francis Fairon
The Mugger
1958 · Dr. Pete Graham
Party Girl
1958 · Jeffrey Stewart
The Badlanders
1958 · Cyril Lounsberry
Imitation General
1958 · Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
Sayonara
1957 · Gen. Webster
Comanche
1956 · Quanah Parker
King Richard II
1954 · Bolingbroke
Paula
1952 · John Rogers
Little Women: Jo's Story
1950 · Professor Fritz Bhaer
This Side of the Law
1950 · David Cummins
The Damned Don't Cry
1950 · Martin Blackford
My Foolish Heart
1950 · Lewis H. Wengler
The Fountainhead
1949 · Peter Keating
Design for Death
1948 · Narrator
The Voice of the Turtle
1947 · Kenneth Bartlett
Magic Town
1947 · Hoopendecker
Nora Prentiss
1947 · Dr. Richard Talbot
Okay for Sound
1946
The Spiral Staircase
1946 · Dr. Parry
Your Next Job
1945 · Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945 · Briefing Colonel
Youth Runs Wild
1944 · Danny Coates
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944 · Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
The Curse of the Cat People
1944 · Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
Three Russian Girls
1943 · John Hill
Dental Health
1943 · Narrator
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Paul Martin
Three Cadets
1943 · Captain A. Edwards
Forever and a Day
1943 · Gates Trimble Pomfret
Hitler's Children
1943 · Professor Nichols
Cat People
1942 · Oliver Reed
Back Door to Heaven
1939 · Attorney (uncredited)
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Woode Swift
Series (50)
Once an Eagle
1976 · Gen. Jacklyn
Wonder Woman
1975 · Chief Justice Brown
Delphi Bureau
1972 · Prescott
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971 · Keats
Night Gallery
1970 · Doctor, Bennett
The Invaders
1967 · Stan Arthur, Edgar Scoville
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Senator William Townsend
Felony Squad
1966 · Everett Jason
The F.B.I.
1965 · US Attorney Leonard Vanatter, Wendell Price, Commodore Coldwell, Elwood Hayes
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Governor Winston E. Brubaker
Profiles in Courage
1964 · Charles Evans Hughes
Daniel Boone
1964 · General Hugh Scott
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Mr. Macy
The Great Adventure
1963 · Gen. Nelson Miles, William Carroll, Grymes
The Outer Limits
1963 · Dr. Block, Aabel
Arrest and Trial
1963
Going My Way
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · Clifton Cavanaugh
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Mr. Benner, Jerry O'Hara, Dr. Sam Adamson
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Charles Dennis
The Defenders
1961 · Dwight Harkavy
The Roaring 20's
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Dexter Willis
Checkmate
1960 · Ainslee
The Aquanauts
1960 · George
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Michael Legrange, Crandall
Rawhide
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Robert Vincent
Lawman
1958 · Kent Smith
Naked City
1958 · George Blake
Bronco
1958
Suspicion
1957 · Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
Perry Mason
1957 · Dr. Arthur Younger, Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
M Squad
1957 · Howard Meston
Wagon Train
1957 · Prof. Paul Owens
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Avery Coombs
Matinee Theater
1955
Crossroads
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Gilbert Hughes
Gunsmoke
1955 · Bealton, Dakota
The Millionaire
1955 · Bill Franklin
General Electric Theater
1953 · Dr. Jonathan Michael
Omnibus
1952 · Sergius Saranoff
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Bolingbroke
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · David Barlow, Steven, at 48, Steve Ferris
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Prince Albert
Lights Out
1949
Studio One
1948 · Friedrich Bhaer
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · John Wilkes Booth