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Kent Smith

Acting
Known For

78 Years Old

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.

Born

New York City, New York, USA on 19th March 1907

Died

23rd April 1985

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Matinee Theater
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The Streets of San Francisco
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Jerry O'Hara
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mr. Benner
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Wagon Train
Prof. Paul Owens
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Perry Mason
Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
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Perry Mason
Dr. Arthur Younger
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Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
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The F.B.I.
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The F.B.I.
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The F.B.I.
Wendell Price
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The F.B.I.
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Have Gun, Will Travel
Avery Coombs
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Have Gun, Will Travel
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The Philco Television Playhouse
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The Philco Television Playhouse
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The Defenders
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Rawhide
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Robert Montgomery Presents
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Robert Montgomery Presents
Prince Albert
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Studio One
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Studio One
Friedrich Bhaer
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The Invaders
Edgar Scoville
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The Invaders
Stan Arthur
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Going My Way
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M Squad
Howard Meston
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Daniel Boone
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Adventures in Paradise
Crandall
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Adventures in Paradise
Michael Legrange
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Suspicion
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
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Lights Out
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Dexter Willis
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The Outer Limits
Aabel
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The Outer Limits
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Cain's Hundred
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The Aquanauts
George
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Profiles in Courage
Charles Evans Hughes
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The Wild Wild West
Governor Winston E. Brubaker
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The Roaring 20's
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Arrest and Trial
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Lux Video Theatre
Steven, at 48
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Lux Video Theatre
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Lux Video Theatre
David Barlow
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Bronco
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77 Sunset Strip
Robert Vincent
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Mission: Impossible
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Felony Squad
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Gunsmoke
Dakota
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Gunsmoke
Bealton
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The Millionaire
Bill Franklin
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Wonder Woman
Chief Justice Brown
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The Beverly Hillbillies
Clifton Cavanaugh
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The Great Adventure
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The Great Adventure
William Carroll
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The Great Adventure
Gen. Nelson Miles
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gilbert Hughes
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Night Gallery
Bennett
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Night Gallery
Doctor
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Naked City
George Blake
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Lawman
Kent Smith
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Checkmate
Ainslee
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Gibbsville
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Once an Eagle
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General Electric Theater
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Sayonara
Gen. Webster
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The Night Stalker
District Attorney Tom Paine
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The Fountainhead
Peter Keating
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Cat People
Oliver Reed
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The Spiral Staircase
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How Awful About Allan
Raymond
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The Disappearance of Flight 412
Gen. Enright
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This Side of the Law
David Cummins
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Lost Horizon
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The Badlanders
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The Trouble with Angels
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Death of a Gunfighter
Andrew Oxley
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Party Girl
Jeffrey Stewart
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Forever and a Day
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This Land Is Mine
Paul Martin
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The Curse of the Cat People
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
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The Damned Don't Cry
Martin Blackford
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A Distant Trumpet
Secretary of War
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Youth Runs Wild
Danny Coates
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Magic Town
Hoopendecker
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Nora Prentiss
Dr. Richard Talbot
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Moon Pilot
Secretary of the Air Force
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Die Sister, Die!
Dr. Thorne
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Comanche
Quanah Parker
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This Earth Is Mine
Francis Fairon
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Strangers When We Meet
Stanley Baxter
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Games
Harry Gordon
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Susan Slade
Dr. Fain
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The Garden Murder Case
Woode Swift
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Hitler's Children
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Youngblood Hawke
Paul Winter Sr.
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The Games
Kaverley
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Pete 'n' Tillie
Father Keating
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
Robert Dodd
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The Balcony
General
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Back Door to Heaven
Attorney (uncredited)
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The Cat Creature
Frank Lucas
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A Covenant with Death
Oliver Parmalee
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Paula
John Rogers
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Probe
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My Foolish Heart
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
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The Crooked Hearts
James Simpson
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The Last Child
Gus Iverson
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The Female Instinct
Warren Packer
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The Voice of the Turtle
Kenneth Bartlett
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The Mugger
Dr. Pete Graham
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The Affair
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Kona Coast
Akamai Barnes
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Assignment to Kill
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Okay for Sound
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The Money Jungle
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Imitation General
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Little Women: Jo's Story
Professor Fritz Bhaer
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Design for Death
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Another Part of the Forest
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The Young Lovers
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Your Next Job
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Dental Health
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Three Russian Girls
John Hill
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