Kent Smith

Personal Info

Birthday

March 19, 1907

Day of Death

1985-04-23

(78 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Kenneth Smith

Frank Kent Smith

Kent Smith

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.

Known For

Perry Mason

Have Gun, Will Travel

Robert Montgomery Presents

Wagon Train

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Beverly Hillbillies

Studio One

Daniel Boone

Filmography

1978
Die Sister, Die!
as Dr. Thorne
1974
The Disappearance of Flight 412
as Gen. Enright
1973
The Cat Creature
as Frank Lucas
The Affair
as Mr. Patterson
Lost Horizon
as Bill Fergunson
1972
The Female Instinct
as Warren Packer
Pete 'n' Tillie
as Father Keating
The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Robert Dodd
The Crooked Hearts
as James Simpson
Another Part of the Forest
as Simon Isham
Probe
as Dr. Edward Laurent
The Night Stalker
as District Attorney Tom Paine
1971
The Last Child
as Gus Iverson
1970
How Awful About Allan
as Raymond
The Games
as Kaverley
1969
Death of a Gunfighter
as Andrew Oxley
1968
Assignment to Kill
as Mr. Eversley
Kona Coast
as Akamai Barnes
1967
The Money Jungle
as Paul Kimmel
Games
as Harry Gordon
A Covenant with Death
as Oliver Parmalee
1966
The Trouble with Angels
as Uncle George Clancy
1964
The Young Lovers
as Dr. Shoemaker
Youngblood Hawke
as Paul Winter Sr.
A Distant Trumpet
as Secretary of War
1963
The Balcony
as General
1962
Moon Pilot
as Secretary of the Air Force
1961
Susan Slade
as Dr. Fain
1960
Strangers When We Meet
as Stanley Baxter
1959
This Earth Is Mine
as Francis Fairon
1958
The Mugger
as Dr. Pete Graham
Party Girl
as Jeffrey Stewart
The Badlanders
as Cyril Lounsberry
Imitation General
as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
1957
Sayonara
as Gen. Webster
1956
Comanche
as Quanah Parker
1952
Paula
as John Rogers
1950
Little Women: Jo's Story
as Professor Fritz Bhaer
This Side of the Law
as David Cummins
The Damned Don't Cry
as Martin Blackford
My Foolish Heart
as Lewis H. Wengler
1949
The Fountainhead
as Peter Keating
1948
Design for Death
as Narrator
1947
The Voice of the Turtle
as Kenneth Bartlett
Magic Town
as Hoopendecker
Nora Prentiss
as Dr. Richard Talbot
1946
The Spiral Staircase
as Dr. Parry
1945
Your Next Job
as Instructor Lieutenant
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
as Briefing Colonel
1944
Youth Runs Wild
as Danny Coates
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
The Curse of the Cat People
as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
1943
Three Russian Girls
as John Hill
Dental Health
as Narrator
This Land Is Mine
as Paul Martin
Three Cadets
as Captain A. Edwards
Forever and a Day
as Gates Trimble Pomfret
Hitler's Children
as Professor Nichols
1942
Cat People
as Oliver Reed
1939
Back Door to Heaven
as Attorney (uncredited)
1936
The Garden Murder Case
as Woode Swift