1907-03-19 ( 118 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
Die Sister, Die!
1978-12-01
The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974-10-01
The Cat Creature
1973-12-11
The Affair
1973-11-20
Lost Horizon
1973-03-14
The Snoop Sisters
1972-12-18
Pete 'n' Tillie
1972-12-17
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972-12-02
The Crooked Hearts
1972-11-08
Another Part of the Forest
1972-10-02
Probe
1972-02-21
The Night Stalker
1972-01-11
The Last Child
1971-10-05
How Awful About Allan
1970-09-22
The Games
1970-08-07
Death of a Gunfighter
1969-05-08
Kona Coast
1968-05-01
Assignment to Kill
1968-05-01
The Money Jungle
1967-12-15
Games
1967-09-17
A Covenant with Death
1967-02-15
The Trouble with Angels
1966-03-29
The Young Lovers
1964-11-12
Youngblood Hawke
1964-11-04
A Distant Trumpet
1964-05-20
The Balcony
1963-03-21
Moon Pilot
1962-04-05
Susan Slade
1961-11-08
Strangers When We Meet
1960-06-29
This Earth Is Mine
1959-07-08
The Mugger
1958-11-01
Party Girl
1958-10-28
The Badlanders
1958-09-03
Imitation General
1958-08-20
Sayonara
1957-12-25
Comanche
1956-03-01
Paula
1952-05-15
Little Women: Jo's Story
1950-12-25
This Side of the Law
1950-06-17
The Damned Don't Cry
1950-05-13
My Foolish Heart
1950-01-19
The Fountainhead
1949-06-25
Design for Death
1948-06-10
The Voice of the Turtle
1947-12-25
Magic Town
1947-10-07
Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
Okay for Sound
1946-09-07
The Spiral Staircase
1946-01-26
Your Next Job
1945-12-09
Youth Runs Wild
1944-09-01
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944-08-01
The Curse of the Cat People
1944-04-01
Three Russian Girls
1943-12-30
Dental Health
1943-11-01
This Land Is Mine
1943-05-07
Three Cadets
1943-01-26
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
Hitler's Children
1943-01-06
Cat People
1942-12-05
Back Door to Heaven
1939-04-19
The Garden Murder Case
1936-02-21
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