Kent Smith
Birthday: 1907-03-19 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USAKent 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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jouer Dr. Thorne
jouer Frank Lucas
jouer Mr. Patterson
jouer District Attorney Tom Paine
jouer Dr. Edward Laurent
jouer Father Keating
jouer Gus Iverson
jouer Kaverley
jouer Raymond
jouer Andrew Oxley
jouer Harry Gordon
jouer Oliver Parmalee
jouer Paul Kimmel
jouer Secretary of War
jouer Secretary of the Air Force
jouer Stanley Baxter
jouer Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
jouer Cyril Lounsberry
jouer Jeffrey Stewart
jouer Quanah Parker
jouer David Cummins
jouer Martin Blackford
jouer Peter Keating
jouer Kenneth Bartlett
jouer Dr. Richard Talbot aka Robert Thompson
jouer Hoopendecker
jouer Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
jouer John Hill
jouer Paul Martin
jouer Professor Nichols