
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.

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Night Gallery

The Outer Limits

The Crooked Hearts

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

Arrest and Trial

The Wild Wild West

Mission: Impossible

Forever and a Day

Have Gun, Will Travel

Rawhide

The Games

This Land Is Mine

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

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The Streets of San Francisco

The Damned Don't Cry

The Last Child

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Daniel Boone

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じゃじゃ馬億万長者

77 Sunset Strip

The Night Stalker

The Fountainhead

Party Girl

The Invaders

Once an Eagle

Magic Town

The Trouble with Angels

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Gunsmoke

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

The Voice of the Turtle

Wagon Train

Paula

My Foolish Heart

General Electric Theater

Felony Squad

Strangers When We Meet

The Philco Television Playhouse

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

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ガンファイターの最後

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Nora Prentiss

Games

Youngblood Hawke

This Earth Is Mine

The Badlanders

Three Russian Girls

Assignment to Kill

Design for Death

Hitler's Children

The Defenders

Suspicion

Bronco

How Awful About Allan

Susan Slade

Pete 'n' Tillie

Lights Out

Imitation General

Going My Way

Adventures in Paradise

The Mugger

Robert Montgomery Presents

Lawman

Probe

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The Aquanauts

The Garden Murder Case

Moon Pilot

Lost Horizon

FBIアメリカ連邦警察

A Distant Trumpet

M Squad

Comanche

The Cat Creature

The Money Jungle

The Balcony

Okay for Sound

Studio One

The Millionaire

Matinee Theater

The Disappearance of Flight 412

Die Sister, Die!

Cain's Hundred

A Covenant with Death

This Side of the Law

Youth Runs Wild

Checkmate

Back Door to Heaven

The Affair

The Judge and Jake Wyler

Kona Coast

The Young Lovers

The Female Instinct

Another Part of the Forest

Little Women: Jo's Story

The Great Adventure

The Roaring 20's

Gibbsville

The Delphi Bureau