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Kent Smith


Biografi

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.

Dikenal sebagai

Acting

Tanggal Lahir

19 March 1907 di New York City, New York, USA

Filmografi

A Covenant with Death

A Covenant with Death

sebagai Oliver Parmalee

Design for Death

Design for Death

sebagai Narrator

The Crooked Hearts

The Crooked Hearts

sebagai James Simpson

Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter

sebagai Andrew Oxley

The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase

sebagai Dr. Parry

Youth Runs Wild

Youth Runs Wild

sebagai Danny Coates

Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven

sebagai Attorney (uncredited)

Little Women: Jo's Story

Little Women: Jo's Story

sebagai Professor Fritz Bhaer

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

sebagai Peter Keating

The Balcony

The Balcony

sebagai General

Cat People

Cat People

sebagai Oliver Reed

Another Part of the Forest

Another Part of the Forest

sebagai Simon Isham

Youngblood Hawke

Youngblood Hawke

sebagai Paul Winter Sr.

Games

Games

sebagai Harry Gordon

The Affair

The Affair

sebagai Mr. Patterson

The Games

The Games

sebagai Kaverley

This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

sebagai Paul Martin

The Mugger

The Mugger

sebagai Dr. Pete Graham