Cast & creator
Kent Smith
Best known for Perry Mason, Perry Mason, Wagon Train
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.
Also known as: Kenneth Smith, Frank Kent Smith
64
film credits
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television credits
132
1936–1982 · acting roles
6.5
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (133)
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Perry Mason
Dr. Arthur Younger
1957Perry Mason
Dr. Curtis Metcalfe
1957
Wagon Train
Prof. Paul Owens
1957
Mission: Impossible
Senator William Townsend
1966
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957Have Gun, Will Travel
Avery Coombs
1957
Matinee Theater
1955
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mr. Benner
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Jerry O'Hara
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Dr. Sam Adamson
1962
Robert Montgomery Presents
Prince Albert
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Naked City
George Blake
1958
Studio One
Friedrich Bhaer
1948Studio One
1948
The Beverly Hillbillies
Clifton Cavanaugh
1962
The Philco Television Playhouse
John Wilkes Booth
1948The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Defenders
Dwight Harkavy
1961
The F.B.I.
US Attorney Leonard Vanatter
1965The F.B.I.
Wendell Price
1965The F.B.I.
Commodore Coldwell
1965The F.B.I.
Elwood Hayes
1965
The Wild Wild West
Governor Winston E. Brubaker
1965
Daniel Boone
General Hugh Scott
1964
Rawhide
1959
Lawman
Kent Smith
1958
Gunsmoke
Bealton
1955Gunsmoke
Dakota
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Omnibus
Sergius Saranoff
1952
Night Gallery
Doctor
1970Night Gallery
Bennett
1970
77 Sunset Strip
Robert Vincent
1958
The Outer Limits
Dr. Block
1963The Outer Limits
Aabel
1963
The Invaders
Stan Arthur
1967The Invaders
Edgar Scoville
1967
Adventures in Paradise
Michael Legrange
1959Adventures in Paradise
Crandall
1959
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mr. Macy
1964
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gilbert Hughes
1955
Bronco
1958
M Squad
Howard Meston
1957
The Millionaire
Bill Franklin
1955
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Dexter Willis
1960
Felony Squad
1966
Checkmate
Ainslee
1960
Wonder Woman
Chief Justice Brown
1975
Lights Out
1949
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Keats
1971Lux Video Theatre
David Barlow
1950Lux Video Theatre
Steven, at 48
1950Lux Video Theatre
Steve Ferris
1950
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Great Adventure
Gen. Nelson Miles
1963The Great Adventure
William Carroll
1963The Great Adventure
Grymes
1963
Suspicion
Dr. Jonathan Michel, the Psychiatrist
1957
Cain's Hundred
Charles Dennis
1961
The Roaring 20's
1960Profiles in Courage
Charles Evans Hughes
1964
Crossroads
1955
The Aquanauts
George
1960
Going My Way
1962
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bolingbroke
1951
Once an Eagle
Gen. Jacklyn
1976
Cat People
Oliver Reed
1942
General Electric Theater
Dr. Jonathan Michael
1953
Delphi Bureau
Prescott
1972
The Night Stalker
District Attorney Tom Paine
1972
Party Girl
Jeffrey Stewart
1958
Magic Town
Hoopendecker
1947
The Fountainhead
Peter Keating
1949
The Trouble with Angels
Uncle George Clancy
1966
The Curse of the Cat People
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed
1944
Death of a Gunfighter
Andrew Oxley
1969
This Earth Is Mine
Francis Fairon
1959
Sayonara
Gen. Webster
1957
Forever and a Day
Gates Trimble Pomfret
1943
This Land Is Mine
Paul Martin
1943
Strangers When We Meet
Stanley Baxter
1960
The Damned Don't Cry
Martin Blackford
1950
The Badlanders
Cyril Lounsberry
1958
Lost Horizon
Bill Fergunson
1973
The Spiral Staircase
Dr. Parry
1946
Comanche
Quanah Parker
1956
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Gen. Enright
1974
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Robert Dodd
1972
The Voice of the Turtle
Kenneth Bartlett
1947
A Distant Trumpet
Secretary of War
1964
Pete 'n' Tillie
Father Keating
1972
Moon Pilot
Secretary of the Air Force
1962
Paula
John Rogers
1952
Games
Harry Gordon
1967
How Awful About Allan
Raymond
1970
My Foolish Heart
Lewis H. Wengler
1950
Nora Prentiss
Dr. Richard Talbot
1947
Little Women: Jo's Story
Professor Fritz Bhaer
1950
Assignment to Kill
Mr. Eversley
1968
Youth Runs Wild
Danny Coates
1944Three Cadets
Captain A. Edwards
1943
Youngblood Hawke
Paul Winter Sr.
1964
Another Part of the Forest
Simon Isham
1972
This Side of the Law
David Cummins
1950
The Games
Kaverley
1970
The Last Child
Gus Iverson
1971
The Affair
Mr. Patterson
1973
A Covenant with Death
Oliver Parmalee
1967King Richard II
Bolingbroke
1954
The Female Instinct
Warren Packer
1972
The Garden Murder Case
Woode Swift
1936
The Cat Creature
Frank Lucas
1973
The Crooked Hearts
James Simpson
1972
Back Door to Heaven
Attorney (uncredited)
1939
Imitation General
Brig. Gen. Charles Lane
1958
Susan Slade
Dr. Fain
1961
Probe
Dr. Edward Laurent
1972
The Mugger
Dr. Pete Graham
1958
Okay for Sound
1946
Hitler's Children
Professor Nichols
1943
The Money Jungle
Paul Kimmel
1967
The Young Lovers
Dr. Shoemaker
1964
Three Russian Girls
John Hill
1943
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis
1944
The Balcony
General
1963
Die Sister, Die!
Dr. Thorne
1978
Taking Tiger Mountain
Producer
1982
Design for Death
Narrator
1948
Kona Coast
Akamai Barnes
1968Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures
Briefing Colonel
1945Your Next Job
Instructor Lieutenant
1945Dental Health
Narrator
1943