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Die Sister, Die!

as Dr. Thorne

1978
The Cat Creature

as Frank Lucas

1973
The Affair

as Mr. Patterson

1973
The Night Stalker

as District Attorney Tom Paine

1972
Pete 'n' Tillie

as Father Keating

1972
Probe

as Dr. Edward Laurent

1972
The Last Child

as Gus Iverson

1971
Death of a Gunfighter

as Andrew Oxley

1969
Games

as Harry Gordon

1967
The Money Jungle

as Paul Kimmel

1968
A Distant Trumpet

as Secretary of War

1964
Moon Pilot

as Secretary of the Air Force

1962
Strangers When We Meet

as Stanley Baxter

1960
Party Girl

as Jeffrey Stewart

1958
The Badlanders

as Cyril Lounsberry

1958
Imitation General

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane

1958
Comanche

as Quanah Parker

1956
The Damned Don't Cry

as Martin Blackford

1950
This Side of the Law

as David Cummins

1950
My Foolish Heart

as Lewis H. Wengler

1950
The Fountainhead

as Peter Keating

1949
Nora Prentiss

as Dr. Richard Talbot aka Robert Thompson

1947
Magic Town

as Hoopendecker

1947
The Voice of the Turtle

as Kenneth Bartlett

1947
The Spiral Staircase

as Dr. Parry

1946
The Curse of the Cat People

as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed

1944
Forever and a Day

as Gates Trimble Pomfret

1943
This Land Is Mine

as Paul Martin

1943
Hitler's Children

as Professor Nichols

1943
Three Russian Girls

as John Hill

1943
Kent Smith Kent Smith

Birthday

1907-03-19

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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.
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