
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.
112 acting credits
Acting · 112

Perry Mason
1957

Wagon Train
1957

Mission: Impossible
1966

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

The Beverly Hillbillies
1962

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Naked City
1958

The Wild Wild West
1965

The F.B.I.
1965

Daniel Boone
1964

Lawman
1958

Rawhide
1959

The Outer Limits
1963

Night Gallery
1970

Studio One
1948

Matinee Theater
1955

The Invaders
1967

The Defenders
1961

The Streets of San Francisco
1972

Omnibus
1952

77 Sunset Strip
1958

Gunsmoke
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964

Adventures in Paradise
1959

Checkmate
1960

M Squad
1957

Wonder Woman
1975

Bronco
1958

The Millionaire
1955

Felony Squad
1966

Arrest and Trial
1963

Cain's Hundred
1961

Lights Out
1949

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971

The Great Adventure
1963
Lux Video Theatre
1950

Suspicion
1957

The Roaring 20's
1960

Going My Way
1962
Profiles in Courage
1964

The Aquanauts
1960

Once an Eagle
1976

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Gibbsville
1976

General Electric Theater
1953

Delphi Bureau
1972

The Fountainhead
1949

The Night Stalker
1972

Cat People
1942

Sayonara
1957

Party Girl
1958

This Land Is Mine
1943

The Damned Don't Cry
1950

Lost Horizon
1973

A Distant Trumpet
1964

Comanche
1956

The Spiral Staircase
1946

Death of a Gunfighter
1969

Strangers When We Meet
1960

Moon Pilot
1962

The Badlanders
1958

Pete 'n' Tillie
1972

Nora Prentiss
1947

Assignment to Kill
1968

The Trouble with Angels
1966

Forever and a Day
1943

The Curse of the Cat People
1944

Magic Town
1947

The Games
1970

Probe
1972

Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944

How Awful About Allan
1970

The Voice of the Turtle
1947

A Covenant with Death
1967

The Last Child
1971

The Female Instinct
1972

The Affair
1973

Susan Slade
1961

This Earth Is Mine
1959

This Side of the Law
1950

The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974

Youngblood Hawke
1964

Another Part of the Forest
1972

The Crooked Hearts
1972

The Money Jungle
1967

Kona Coast
1968

The Balcony
1963

Games
1967

The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972

My Foolish Heart
1950

Back Door to Heaven
1939

Paula
1952

Imitation General
1958

The Garden Murder Case
1936

Hitler's Children
1943

The Mugger
1958

The Young Lovers
1964

The Cat Creature
1973

Okay for Sound
1946

Youth Runs Wild
1944

Little Women: Jo's Story
1950

Three Russian Girls
1943

Design for Death
1947

Die Sister, Die!
1978
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
1945
Three Cadets
1943
Your Next Job
1945
Dental Health
1943