Kent Smith

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-03-19 (78 years old)

Deathday

1985-04-23

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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. He also appeared on Broadway in Measure for Measure, Sweet Love Remembered, The Best Man, Ah,...

Acting

1972

The Crooked Hearts

as James Simpson

1949

The Fountainhead

as Peter Keating

1942

Cat People

as Oliver Reed

1958

Party Girl

as Jeffrey Stewart

1946

1947

Nora Prentiss

as Dr. Richard Talbot

1972

The Female Instinct

as Warren Packer

1957

Sayonara

as Gen. Webster

1944

The Curse of the Cat People

as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed

1978

Die Sister, Die!

as Dr. Thorne

1950

The Damned Don't Cry

as Martin Blackford

1972

The Night Stalker

as District Attorney Tom Paine

1939

Back Door to Heaven

as Attorney (uncredited)

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Paul Martin

1950

This Side of the Law

as David Cummins

1962

Moon Pilot

as Secretary of the Air Force

1972

1958

The Mugger

as Dr. Pete Graham

1964

A Distant Trumpet

as Secretary of War

1970

1969

Death of a Gunfighter

as Andrew Oxley

1961

Susan Slade

as Dr. Fain

1967

Games

as Harry Gordon

1944

Youth Runs Wild

as Danny Coates

1960

Strangers When We Meet

as Stanley Baxter

1973

Lost Horizon

as Bill Fergunson

1943

Hitler's Children

as Professor Nichols

1956

Comanche

as Quanah Parker

1964

Youngblood Hawke

as Paul Winter Sr.

1936

1968

Kona Coast

as Akamai Barnes

1973

The Cat Creature

as Frank Lucas

1944

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis

1959

This Earth Is Mine

as Francis Fairon

1947

The Voice of the Turtle

as Kenneth Bartlett

1972

Probe

as Dr. Edward Laurent

1958

Imitation General

as Brig. Gen. Charles Lane

1964

The Young Lovers

as Dr. Shoemaker

1971

The Last Child

as Gus Iverson

1952

Paula

as John Rogers

1967

A Covenant with Death

as Oliver Parmalee

1943

1947

Magic Town

as Hoopendecker

1966

The Trouble with Angels

as Uncle George Clancy

1973

The Affair

as Mr. Patterson

1958

The Badlanders

as Cyril Lounsberry

1950

My Foolish Heart

as Lewis H. Wengler

1968

Assignment to Kill

as Mr. Eversley

1967

The Money Jungle

as Paul Kimmel

1972

1943

Forever and a Day

as Gates Trimble Pomfret

1972

Pete 'n' Tillie

as Father Keating

1963

The Balcony

as General

1970

The Games

as Kaverley

1943

Three Cadets

as Captain A. Edwards

1945

Your Next Job

as Instructor Lieutenant

1950

Little Women: Jo's Story

as Professor Fritz Bhaer

1948

Design for Death

as Narrator

1943

Dental Health

as Narrator

Production

1982

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