Kent Smith

Also Known As: Kenneth Smith, Frank Kent Smith

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 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: March 19, 1907

Age: 118 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: April 23, 1985

Popularity:

2.37%

Known For:

The Crooked Hearts
The Fountainhead
Cat People
Party Girl
The Spiral Staircase
Nora Prentiss
The Snoop Sisters
Sayonara
The Curse of the Cat People
Die Sister, Die!
The Damned Don't Cry
The Night Stalker
Back Door to Heaven
This Land Is Mine
This Side of the Law
Moon Pilot
The Judge and Jake Wyler
The Mugger
A Distant Trumpet
How Awful About Allan
Death of a Gunfighter
Susan Slade
Games
Youth Runs Wild
Strangers When We Meet
Lost Horizon
Hitler's Children
Comanche
Youngblood Hawke
The Garden Murder Case
Kona Coast
The Cat Creature
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
This Earth Is Mine
The Voice of the Turtle
Probe
Imitation General
The Young Lovers
The Last Child
Paula
A Covenant with Death
Three Russian Girls
Magic Town
The Trouble with Angels
The Affair
The Badlanders
My Foolish Heart
Assignment to Kill
The Disappearance of Flight 412
The Money Jungle
Another Part of the Forest
Forever and a Day
Pete 'n' Tillie
The Balcony
The Games
Three Cadets
Okay for Sound
Your Next Job
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Little Women: Jo's Story
Design for Death
Dental Health