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Kent Smith

Kent Smith

Known For Acting
Birthday Mar 19, 1907
Died Apr 23, 1985 (78)
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Popularity 0.6 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 F ... almouth, 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.

Known For

Filmography

Die Sister, Die!

Die Sister, Die!

1978

as Dr. Thorne

The Disappearance of Flight 412

The Disappearance of Flight 412

1974

as Gen. Enright

The Affair

The Affair

1973

as Mr. Patterson

The Cat Creature

The Cat Creature

1973

as Frank Lucas

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1973

as Bill Fergunson

The Crooked Hearts

The Crooked Hearts

1972

as James Simpson

Probe

Probe

1972

as Dr. Edward Laurent

The Night Stalker

The Night Stalker

1972

as District Attorney Tom Paine

The Judge and Jake Wyler

The Judge and Jake Wyler

1972

as Robert Dodd

Pete 'n' Tillie

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

as Father Keating

The Snoop Sisters

The Snoop Sisters

1972

as Warren Packer

Another Part of the Forest

Another Part of the Forest

1972

as Simon Isham

The Last Child

The Last Child

1971

as Gus Iverson

How Awful About Allan

How Awful About Allan

1970

as Raymond

The Games

The Games

1970

as Kaverley

Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter

1969

as Andrew Oxley

Kona Coast

Kona Coast

1968

as Akamai Barnes

Assignment to Kill

Assignment to Kill

1968

as Mr. Eversley

Games

Games

1967

as Harry Gordon

The Money Jungle

The Money Jungle

1967

as Paul Kimmel

A Covenant with Death

A Covenant with Death

1967

as Oliver Parmalee

The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels

1966

as Uncle George Clancy

The Young Lovers

The Young Lovers

1964

as Dr. Shoemaker

A Distant Trumpet

A Distant Trumpet

1964

as Secretary of War

Youngblood Hawke

Youngblood Hawke

1964

as Paul Winter Sr.

The Balcony

The Balcony

1963

as General

Moon Pilot

Moon Pilot

1962

as Secretary of the Air Force

Susan Slade

Susan Slade

1961

as Dr. Fain

Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

1960

as Stanley Baxter

This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine

1959

as Francis Fairon

The Mugger

The Mugger

1958

as Dr. Pete Graham

Imitation General

Imitation General

1958

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane

Party Girl

Party Girl

1958

as Jeffrey Stewart

The Badlanders

The Badlanders

1958

as Cyril Lounsberry

Sayonara

Sayonara

1957

as Gen. Webster

Comanche

Comanche

1956

as Quanah Parker

Paula

Paula

1952

as John Rogers

Little Women: Jo's Story

Little Women: Jo's Story

1950

as Professor Fritz Bhaer

This Side of the Law

This Side of the Law

1950

as David Cummins

My Foolish Heart

My Foolish Heart

1950

as Lewis H. Wengler

The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

as Martin Blackford

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

1949

as Peter Keating

Design for Death

Design for Death

1948

as Narrator

Nora Prentiss

Nora Prentiss

1947

as Dr. Richard Talbot

Magic Town

Magic Town

1947

as Hoopendecker

The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle

1947

as Kenneth Bartlett

The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase

1946

as Dr. Parry

Your Next Job

Your Next Job

1945

as Instructor Lieutenant

Youth Runs Wild

Youth Runs Wild

1944

as Danny Coates

The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People

1944

as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

1944

as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day

1943

as Gates Trimble Pomfret

Three Cadets

Three Cadets

1943

as Captain A. Edwards

Three Russian Girls

Three Russian Girls

1943

as John Hill

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children

1943

as Professor Nichols

This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

1943

as Paul Martin

Cat People

Cat People

1942

as Oliver Reed

Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven

1939

as Attorney (uncredited)

The Garden Murder Case

The Garden Murder Case

1936

as Woode Swift

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Taking Tiger Mountain

Taking Tiger Mountain

1982

Producer

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

The Invaders

as Stan Arthur

Episodes: 27

First Aired: Jan 10, 1967

The Invaders

as Edgar Scoville

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Jan 10, 1967

Once an Eagle

as Gen. Jacklyn

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Dec 02, 1976

The Great Adventure

as Gen. Nelson Miles

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 27, 1963

Studio One

as Friedrich Bhaer

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Nov 07, 1948

General Electric Theater

as Dr. Jonathan Michael

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

Suspicion

as Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 30, 1957

77 Sunset Strip

as Robert Vincent

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 1958

Cain's Hundred

as Charles Dennis

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1961

The F.B.I.

as US Attorney Leonard Vanatter

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1965

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Clifton Cavanaugh

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1962

Naked City

as George Blake

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1958

Perry Mason

as Dr. Arthur Younger

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Gunsmoke

as Bealton

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

Wonder Woman

as Chief Justice Brown

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 07, 1975

Mission: Impossible

as Senator William Townsend

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 05, 1968

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Bolingbroke

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 24, 1951

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Gilbert Hughes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1955

Daniel Boone

as General Hugh Scott

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1964

The Millionaire

as Bill Franklin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 19, 1955

Lux Video Theatre

as David Barlow

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1950

The Aquanauts

as George

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1960

M Squad

as Howard Meston

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1957

Adventures in Paradise

as Michael Legrange

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1959

Profiles in Courage

as Charles Evans Hughes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 08, 1964

The Philco Television Playhouse

as John Wilkes Booth

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 03, 1948

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Prince Albert

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 30, 1950

The Defenders

as Dwight Harkavy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1961

The Outer Limits

as Dr. Block

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1963

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Dexter Willis

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1960

Night Gallery

as Doctor

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 16, 1970

Wagon Train

as Prof. Paul Owens

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 18, 1957

Adventures in Paradise

as Crandall

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1959

The F.B.I.

as Wendell Price

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1965

The F.B.I.

as Commodore Coldwell

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1965

The F.B.I.

as Elwood Hayes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1965

Gunsmoke

as Dakota

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Avery Coombs

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1957

The Outer Limits

as Aabel

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1963

Lux Video Theatre

as Steven, at 48

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1950

Lux Video Theatre

as Steve Ferris

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1950

Checkmate

as Ainslee

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1960

The Great Adventure

as William Carroll

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 27, 1963

The Great Adventure

as Grymes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 27, 1963

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Mr. Benner

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1962

Perry Mason

as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

The Wild Wild West

as Governor Winston E. Brubaker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1965

Night Gallery

as Bennett

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 16, 1970

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Keats

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1971

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

as Mr. Macy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 22, 1964

Lawman

as Kent Smith

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1958

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Jerry O'Hara

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Dr. Sam Adamson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1962

Robert Montgomery Presents

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Jan 30, 1950

Have Gun, Will Travel

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 14, 1957

The Philco Television Playhouse

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 03, 1948

The Streets of San Francisco

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 23, 1972

Arrest and Trial

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 15, 1963

Going My Way

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 03, 1962

Felony Squad

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 12, 1966

Bronco

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 23, 1958

Matinee Theater

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 31, 1955

Lights Out

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 19, 1949

The Roaring 20's

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1960

Studio One

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 07, 1948

Gibbsville

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 11, 1976

Rawhide

Episodes: 0

First Aired: Jan 09, 1959

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Year Month Avg Max Min
2024 6 8 14 5
2024 7 16 26 4
2024 8 13 29 6
2024 9 9 25 2
2024 10 4 9 2
2024 11 4 8 2
2024 12 6 10 3
2025 1 10 28 3
2025 2 4 9 1
2025 3 3 5 1
2025 4 1 1 1
2025 5 2 2 1
2025 6 1 1 1
2025 7 0 1 0
2025 8 4 15 0

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