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