Kent Smith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1907, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- April 23, 1985
- Movies
- 64
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1978 | Die Sister, Die! | Dr. Thorne |
| 1974 | The Disappearance of Flight 412 | Gen. Enright |
| 1973 | The Cat Creature | Frank Lucas |
| 1973 | The Affair | Mr. Patterson |
| 1973 | Lost Horizon | Bill Fergunson |
| 1972 | The Female Instinct | Warren Packer |
| 1972 | Pete 'n' Tillie | Father Keating |
| 1972 | The Judge and Jake Wyler | Robert Dodd |
| 1972 | The Crooked Hearts | James Simpson |
| 1972 | Another Part of the Forest | Simon Isham |
| 1972 | Probe | Dr. Edward Laurent |
| 1972 | The Night Stalker | District Attorney Tom Paine |
| 1971 | The Last Child | Gus Iverson |
| 1970 | How Awful About Allan | Raymond |
| 1970 | The Games | Kaverley |
| 1969 | Death of a Gunfighter | Andrew Oxley |
| 1968 | Kona Coast | Akamai Barnes |
| 1968 | Assignment to Kill | Mr. Eversley |
| 1967 | The Money Jungle | Paul Kimmel |
| 1967 | Games | Harry Gordon |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death | Oliver Parmalee |
| 1966 | The Trouble with Angels | Uncle George Clancy |
| 1964 | The Young Lovers | Dr. Shoemaker |
| 1964 | Youngblood Hawke | Paul Winter Sr. |
| 1964 | A Distant Trumpet | Secretary of War |
| 1963 | The Balcony | General |
| 1962 | Moon Pilot | Secretary of the Air Force |
| 1961 | Susan Slade | Dr. Fain |
| 1960 | Strangers When We Meet | Stanley Baxter |
| 1959 | This Earth Is Mine | Francis Fairon |
| 1958 | The Mugger | Dr. Pete Graham |
| 1958 | Party Girl | Jeffrey Stewart |
| 1958 | The Badlanders | Cyril Lounsberry |
| 1958 | Imitation General | Brig. Gen. Charles Lane |
| 1957 | Sayonara | Gen. Webster |
| 1956 | Comanche | Quanah Parker |
| 1954 | King Richard II | Bolingbroke |
| 1952 | Paula | John Rogers |
| 1950 | Little Women: Jo's Story | Professor Fritz Bhaer |
| 1950 | This Side of the Law | David Cummins |
| 1950 | The Damned Don't Cry | Martin Blackford |
| 1950 | My Foolish Heart | Lewis H. Wengler |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Peter Keating |
| 1948 | Design for Death | Narrator |
| 1947 | The Voice of the Turtle | Kenneth Bartlett |
| 1947 | Magic Town | Hoopendecker |
| 1947 | Nora Prentiss | Dr. Richard Talbot |
| 1946 | Okay for Sound | |
| 1946 | The Spiral Staircase | Dr. Parry |
| 1945 | Your Next Job | Instructor Lieutenant |
| 1945 | Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomb Loading Procedures | Briefing Colonel |
| 1944 | Youth Runs Wild | Danny Coates |
| 1944 | Resisting Enemy Interrogation | Capt. Reining - American Working for the Nazis |
| 1944 | The Curse of the Cat People | Oliver 'Ollie' Reed |
| 1943 | Three Russian Girls | John Hill |
| 1943 | Dental Health | Narrator |
| 1943 | This Land Is Mine | Paul Martin |
| 1943 | Three Cadets | Captain A. Edwards |
| 1943 | Forever and a Day | Gates Trimble Pomfret |
| 1943 | Hitler's Children | Professor Nichols |
| 1942 | Cat People | Oliver Reed |
| 1939 | Back Door to Heaven | Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Garden Murder Case | Woode Swift |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1982 | Taking Tiger Mountain | Producer |
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