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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	0.008
Birthday	1907-03-19
Place of Birth	New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As	Kenneth Smith, Frank Kent Smith,

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