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.
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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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