
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.
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Credits
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Die Sister, Die! 1978Dr. Thorne★ 4.7
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Once an Eagle 1976Gen. Jacklyn★ 6.8
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Gibbsville 1976★ NR
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Wonder Woman 1975Chief Justice Brown★ 7
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Gen. Enright★ 4.9
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The Cat Creature 1973Frank Lucas★ 5
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The Affair 1973Mr. Patterson★ 5.5
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Lost Horizon 1973Bill Fergunson★ 5.4
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The Female Instinct 1972Warren Packer★ NR
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Pete 'n' Tillie 1972Father Keating★ 5.5
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Robert Dodd★ 3
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The Crooked Hearts 1972James Simpson★ 7.8
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Simon Isham★ NR
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★ 6.9
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Probe 1972Dr. Edward Laurent★ 5.5
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The Night Stalker 1972District Attorney Tom Paine★ 6.8
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The Last Child 1971Gus Iverson★ 7
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Keats★ 6.3
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Night Gallery 1970Doctor★ 7.8
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Raymond★ 5.8
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The Games 1970Kaverley★ 7.1
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Andrew Oxley★ 6.4
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Kona Coast 1968Akamai Barnes★ 3.1
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Assignment to Kill 1968Mr. Eversley★ 6
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The Money Jungle 1967Paul Kimmel★ 5
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Games 1967Harry Gordon★ 6.1
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Oliver Parmalee★ 5
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The Invaders 1967Stan Arthur★ 6.8
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Mission: Impossible 1966Senator William Townsend★ 7.6
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Felony Squad 1966★ 6.4
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Uncle George Clancy★ 6.8
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The F.B.I. 1965US Attorney Leonard Vanatter★ 5.5
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The Wild Wild West 1965Governor Winston E. Brubaker★ 7.5
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The Young Lovers 1964Dr. Shoemaker★ 2
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Profiles in Courage 1964Charles Evans Hughes★ 5
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Youngblood Hawke 1964Paul Winter Sr.★ 6.1
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Daniel Boone 1964General Hugh Scott★ 6.9
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Mr. Macy★ 7.2
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A Distant Trumpet 1964Secretary of War★ 5.3
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The Great Adventure 1963Gen. Nelson Miles★ NR
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The Outer Limits 1963Dr. Block★ 7.8
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Arrest and Trial 1963★ 7.7
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The Balcony 1963General★ 5.2
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Going My Way 1962★ 5.7
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Clifton Cavanaugh★ 6.8
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Mr. Benner★ 7.8
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Moon Pilot 1962Secretary of the Air Force★ 5.4
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Susan Slade 1961Dr. Fain★ 5.8
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Cain's Hundred 1961Charles Dennis★ 4.7
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The Defenders 1961Dwight Harkavy★ 6.2
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The Roaring 20's 1960★ NR
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Dexter Willis★ 6.2
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Checkmate 1960Ainslee★ 4.1
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The Aquanauts 1960George★ 5.5
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Stanley Baxter★ 6.3
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Michael Legrange★ 5.7
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This Earth Is Mine 1959Francis Fairon★ 6.1
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Rawhide 1959★ 7.2
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The Mugger 1958Dr. Pete Graham★ 5.6
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Party Girl 1958Jeffrey Stewart★ 6.8
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77 Sunset Strip 1958Robert Vincent★ 6.7
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Lawman 1958Kent Smith★ 5.6
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Naked City 1958George Blake★ 5.5
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Bronco 1958★ 5.2
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The Badlanders 1958Cyril Lounsberry★ 6.2
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Imitation General 1958Brig. Gen. Charles Lane★ 5.7
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Sayonara 1957Gen. Webster★ 6.6
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Suspicion 1957Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist★ 5.9
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Perry Mason 1957Dr. Arthur Younger★ 7.7
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M Squad 1957Howard Meston★ 5.2
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Wagon Train 1957Prof. Paul Owens★ 6.3
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★ 7.4
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Comanche 1956Quanah Parker★ 5
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Matinee Theater 1955★ 5
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Gilbert Hughes★ 7.7
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Gunsmoke 1955Bealton★ 6.6
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The Millionaire 1955Bill Franklin★ 5
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Dr. Jonathan Michael★ 6.3
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Paula 1952John Rogers★ 6.5
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Bolingbroke★ 8.6
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Professor Fritz Bhaer★ NR
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Lux Video Theatre 1950David Barlow★ 6.3
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This Side of the Law 1950David Cummins★ 4.8
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The Damned Don't Cry 1950Martin Blackford★ 7.1
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Prince Albert★ 5.6
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My Foolish Heart 1950Lewis H. Wengler★ 6.7
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Lights Out 1949★ 5.3
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The Fountainhead 1949Peter Keating★ 6.9
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Studio One 1948Friedrich Bhaer★ 5
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John Wilkes Booth★ 6.3
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Design for Death 1948Narrator★ 6
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Kenneth Bartlett★ 6.6
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Magic Town 1947Hoopendecker★ 6.7
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Nora Prentiss 1947Dr. Richard Talbot★ 6.1
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Okay for Sound 1946★ 5
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The Spiral Staircase 1946Dr. Parry★ 7.1
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Your Next Job 1945Instructor Lieutenant★ NR
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Briefing Colonel★ NR
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Youth Runs Wild 1944Danny Coates★ 4.2
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Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis★ 6.6
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Oliver 'Ollie' Reed★ 6.2
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Three Russian Girls 1943John Hill★ 6
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Dental Health 1943Narrator★ NR
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This Land Is Mine 1943Paul Martin★ 7.1
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Three Cadets 1943Captain A. Edwards★ NR
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Forever and a Day 1943Gates Trimble Pomfret★ 7.4
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Hitler's Children 1943Professor Nichols★ 5.9
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Cat People 1942Oliver Reed★ 6.9
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Back Door to Heaven 1939Attorney (uncredited)★ 3.7
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Woode Swift★ 5.5